Reconnect America Podcast & Blog

How can railroads reduce political polarization—and facilitate a renewable energy revolution?
Reconnect America is a podcast from Solutionary Rail that presents a creative yet common sense vision for U.S. railroads. It weaves together the genius of community and technical experts, workers and policymakers, advocates and scholars.

Reconnect America reflects a decade of research, writing, and advocacy aimed at illuminating the ways in which the U.S. rail system can be harnessed to better service public interests and to address 21st century problems. The podcast is hosted by Bill Moyer, co-author of the book Solutionary Rail: A People-powered Campaign to Electrify America’s Railroads and Open Corridors to a Clean Energy Future.

Our main series consists of carefully crafted, documentary-style episodes. Each episode weaves together multiple guest voices to present a key piece of the Solutionary Rail vision. In between these main episodes, we also publish full interviews and shorter excerpts that we call "Rail Bites."

You can find dedicated playlists for both our main series and our interviews and rail bites on Spotify and YouTube.

Listen to our main episodes on your favorite platform by clicking the links below:

• Episode 1. Reconnect America
• Episode 2. From Bloom to Bailout: A History of U.S. Passenger Rail (Part 1)
• Episode 3. Amtrak’s Genesis and the Ongoing Struggle to Reclaim the Public Purpose of Passenger Rail (Part 2)
• Episode 4. Private Railroads for Public Purpose: Battles, Misadventures, and Extraordinary Measures
• Episode 5. Profitability at Any Cost: The Price We Paid to Rescue U.S. Railroads

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