Reconnect America Podcast

Reconnect America is the new podcast from Solutionary Rail. It presents a creative yet common sense vision for U.S. railroads. Hosted by Bill Moyer, Reconnect America weaves together the genius of community and technical experts, workers and policymakers, advocates and scholars. The podcast expands upon the book Solutionary Rail: A People-powered Campaign to Electrify America’s Railroads and Open Corridors to a Clean Energy Future. Reconnect America reflects a decade of research, writing, and advocacy that illuminates the many ways in which the U.S. rail system can be harnessed to better serve public interests and solve 21st century problems.

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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