Atchison Topeka News Today

Events happening in New Mexico the week of August 25 – August 31

/PRNewswire/ -- Los Angeles Union Station, with presenting partners Metro, Amtrak and Metrolink, will welcome train enthusiasts, history aficionados, industry...

Settlement funding to remediate groundwater at two Superfund sites in Albuquerque could be used to partially fund the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority’s Southside Wastewater Reclamation Plant Outfall Restoration project. The Office of Natural Resources Trustee is seeking public comments on a proposal to use $566,000 of money remaining from settlements in the Atchison […]

America celebrated the 1976 bicentennial in many ways. The railroad industry celebrated in a big way by painting locomotives in bicentennial paint schemes.

Before a few weeks ago, it had been years since I’d darkened the door of a Waffle House. One of the last times had been on a morning two years

An argument (and podcast) for reviving passenger rail in Colorado ski country A high-speed rail fantasy (2013 by graphic artist Alfred Twu). In doing some research for my appearance on Forrest Whitman’s On The Rail’s podcast on KHEN 106.9 FM radio in Salida, Colorado, I realized that I first started seriously writing about passenger rail service into the Colorado mountains back in the mid-aughts but that my true connection to trains, mountains, skiing and water runs much deeper...

Love them or hate them, the railroads created a template that other nascent industries followed. Telegraph and telephone, automobile and airplane, radio and television, and now the internet—each of these technologies, in its own way, made us ever more tightly connected. Industries that sprang up around these new technological products generated enormous wealth and great power for some. And all of them eventually felt the hand of government regulation. But first the railroad had to come throug...