Growing collection of articles and interviews featuring Solutionary Rail (or directly related):
TokiTV - Trains Can Save Salmon? Interview Presentation by Bill Moyer, March 24, 2024
Seattle Times - OpEd - WA just dodged a bullet train boondoggle OpEd by Bill Moyer, Jan 2, 2024
Voice of Vashon - Small Talk Segment: Solutionary Rail and the use of Railroads in the USA Interview on the Brown Briefly Show, December 27, 2022
Lewiston Morning Tribune - Investing in Rail Now Could Save Money and Salmon Op-Ed by Bill Moyer and Nick Gerhardt, November 27, 2022
Spokane Spokesman-Review - Can Trains Save Salmon? Op-Ed by Solutionary Rail Campaign Lead Bill Moyer, October 29, 2022
AJOT - STB’S Oberman says US railroads reduced service, raised rates and derived $191 billion in dividends and buybacks since 2010 by Stas Margaronis (Not about Solutionary Rail, but directly related.)
Washington Monthly - Amtrak Joe vs the Modern Robber Barons by Phillip Longman
Railway Age - "Can we please be honest here?" by Matthew Parker (Not about Solutionary Rail, but directly related.)
Daily Kos - Why we can't have the railroads we need to save the planet. We're looking at you, Wall Street - by Larry Roth, August 10, 2021
Daily Kos - The IPCC report is a Code Red level warning. Here's one way we can act on it - by Larry Roth, August 9, 2021
FreightWaves - Is electrifying the freight rail network cost prohibitive? - by Joanna Marsh, April 28, 2021
KPFA Radio in Berkeley - Behind the News: A Program for Reviving Railroads - interview by Doug Henwood, April 22, 2021
KSQD Radio in Santa Cruz - Bill Moyer Shares the Vision of a Win-Win-Win Solution for America's Freight and Passenger Transportation Challenges - interview by Len Beyea, Talk of the Bay KSQD.org, March 18, 2021
Medium - There's a right track and a wrong track for the future of Washington state rail - by Thomas White and Bill Moyer, March 10, 2021
Volts - Transmission Fortnight: burying power lines next to rail & roads to make a national transmission grid - by David Roberts, Feb 1, 2021
Good Day! Magazine - Granges urged to think of rail as part of climate solution - by Bill Moyer, December 2020
Davis Enterprise - Per Capita Davis: When innovation goes off the rails - b
Davis Enterprise - Per Capita Davis: Reimagining the railroads - b
Daily Kos - Interesting Rail News from Germany, England, and India. Then There's America, by Larry Roth, January 26, 2020
Seattle Weekly - Meet the group trying to electrify America’s railroads, by Aaron Kunkler, January 12, 2020
Adirondack Almanack - Viewpoint: Tearing Out Railroads Is Not Progress, by Larry Roth, January 8, 2020
The Olympian - Get behind Solutionary Rail, which would be good for climate, workers, communities, by Glen Anderson, November 28, 2019
The Crest, Sierra Club Washington State Chapter - Electrified Railroads Can Improve Carbon Footprint of Transport, by Tim Gould, Summer 2018
Environment and Energy Study Institute - Electrification of U.S. Railways: Pie in the Sky, or Realistic Goal? by Richard Nunno, May 30 2018
Counterpunch - Bring on Solutionary Rail, by Rivera Sun, February 5, 2018
Friends Journal - Book Review, by Ruah Swennerfelt, Jan 1, 2018
GreenBiz - Laying the Tracks for a Newly Powered Rail System, by Patrick Mazza and Bill Moyer, December 16, 2017
CleanTechnica - Solutionary Rail Proposes A Single Infrastructure Upgrade That Solves Two Chronic Problems by Kyle Field, September 16th, 2017
RECOMMENDED: Yes! Magazine - Summer 2017 issue & website - Electric Trains Everywhere: A Solution to Crumbling Roads and Climate Crisis by Stephen Miller, May 30, 2017
The Architects Newspaper reference to Solutionary Rail as a way of thinking about infrastructure. $647 million in federal funds for Caltrain electrification approved, By Antonio Pacheco, May 26, 2017
Real Change News - Feature - Backbone Campaign’s people-powered plan to electrify America’s railroads by Sydney Parker | May 3rd, 2017
Real Change News - Book Review - Local activist organization publishes proposal to electrify the rail system by Mary Paterson | April 12th, 2017
Speak Up! Speak Out! radio interview
Grist OpEd: How we can turn railroads into a climate solution,By Patrick Mazza, March 13, 2017
High Speed Rail America Club's #BuildIt campaign produced this interview:
Trains Magazine: Electrifying the Northern Transcon? Environmentalist author says electrified freight railroads help the earth By Justin Franz | February 28, 2017
Weather Channel: http://www.solutionaryrail.org/sr-weatherchannel
Thom Hartmann Show: http://www.thomhartmann.com/bigpicture/what-solutionary-rail-wguest-bill-moyer
In These Times: http://inthesetimes.com/rural-america/entry/19344/solutionary-rail-transcon-proposal-the-backbone-campaign-pacific-northwest
And more:
https://www.riverasun.com/the-democracy-lab-winds-of-change/
http://clearingthefogradio.org/the-end-of-oil-opens-the-door-to-solutionary-rail/
http://breakfreepnw.org/2016/05/09/solutionary-rail/
http://cascadiaplanet.blogspot.com/2014/10/solutionary-rail-railroad.html
http://crosscut.com/2015/03/nw-rail-in-need-of-an-electrical-charge/
https://popularresistance.org/solutionary-rail-electrify-rail-corridors-for-freight-people/
http://redgreenandblue.org/2016/08/15/sunday-train-lets-build-steel-interstate/
http://davidswanson.org/node/5304
http://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2015/01/rail-workers-and-environmentalists-teach-each-other