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Rail Transportation

  • Food

    October 26, 2011

    A Little Raskin: Amtrak's Fork in the Railroad

    Tom Douglas helps the embattled train system improve its meals.

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2011

    Amtrak Dining Overhaul Includes Vegan Noodles and Tom Douglas' Salmon

    ​The menus, china, and other dining memorabilia showcased aboard Amtrak's exhibit train, which rolled into town this weekend, are easy fodder for romantics who glamorize earlier generations of dining on the rails. But Amtrak executives and frequent riders say the current decade may represent t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2011

    Woman Killed on Train Tracks in Seattle, Possibly While Holding Pipe Bomb

    ​Details are still few on this one, but what we have so far is that an unidentified woman was killed on the train tracks near Carkeek Park in Seattle a few hours ago. And after she was struck, a "pipe-bomb-like device with a fuse" was found near her body. That's the fourth train-pedestrian fa ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 2, 2011

    Jack Hamann

    ​Details are still few on this one, but what we have so far is that an unidentified woman was killed on the train tracks near Carkeek Park in Seattle a few hours ago. And after she was struck, a "pipe-bomb-like device with a fuse" was found near her body. That's the fourth train-pedestrian fa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2010

    Lawsuit Blames Potato Flakes Sticking to Wheels For 2009 Train Derailment

    ​So apparently when rail cars full of dehydrated potatoes travel by train, the crumbly flakes fly everywhere and can get stuck to the wheels. Railroad workers, therefore, have to scrape the caked-on spuds off the wheels in order to make the cars run smoothly. When they don't, the results can l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2009

    Warren Buffett, the Second-Richest Man in the World, Buys Up a Big Piece of the Richest Man's Home Turf

    ​Warren Buffett, the multi-billionaire investor, has just made what he calls an "all-in wager on the economic future of the United States." And Seattle accounts for a lot of those chips. Buffett today became the proud owner of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., the biggest rail company in the ... More >>

  • Film

    September 16, 2009

    PICK Somers Town: An Adorable Boy Lost in the Big (Not So Bad) City

    ​Warren Buffett, the multi-billionaire investor, has just made what he calls an "all-in wager on the economic future of the United States." And Seattle accounts for a lot of those chips. Buffett today became the proud owner of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., the biggest rail company in the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2009

    Obama's Horrible Railroad Plan

    Don't get me wrong, I love riding the train--in Europe, in Asia, back when I lived on the East Coast. But President Obama's new high-speed rail plan (per The New York Times) is just plain awful. Why? Look at the northwest corner of the map below: Because it brings Portland that much closer to us. An ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 4, 2009

    Jack Hamann

    Don't get me wrong, I love riding the train--in Europe, in Asia, back when I lived on the East Coast. But President Obama's new high-speed rail plan (per The New York Times) is just plain awful. Why? Look at the northwest corner of the map below: Because it brings Portland that much closer to us. An ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 24, 2008

    Andy's Diner to be Reincarnated as The Orient Express

    Don't get me wrong, I love riding the train--in Europe, in Asia, back when I lived on the East Coast. But President Obama's new high-speed rail plan (per The New York Times) is just plain awful. Why? Look at the northwest corner of the map below: Because it brings Portland that much closer to us. An ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 13, 2008

    Beacon Hill Doesn't Deserve its Light Rail Station

    Don't get me wrong, I love riding the train--in Europe, in Asia, back when I lived on the East Coast. But President Obama's new high-speed rail plan (per The New York Times) is just plain awful. Why? Look at the northwest corner of the map below: Because it brings Portland that much closer to us. An ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2007

    Time to Put a Fork in Amtrak?

    Don't get me wrong, I love riding the train--in Europe, in Asia, back when I lived on the East Coast. But President Obama's new high-speed rail plan (per The New York Times) is just plain awful. Why? Look at the northwest corner of the map below: Because it brings Portland that much closer to us. An ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2007

    Oakley Hall Fact O' The Day

    Don't get me wrong, I love riding the train--in Europe, in Asia, back when I lived on the East Coast. But President Obama's new high-speed rail plan (per The New York Times) is just plain awful. Why? Look at the northwest corner of the map below: Because it brings Portland that much closer to us. An ... More >>

  • News

    November 8, 2006

    Putting the Dog Down

    The luxury seats wait outside Greyhound's decrepit Seattle station at Eighth and Stewart.

  • News

    November 1, 2006

    The Dangerous Lives of Train-Hoppin' Hobos

    For some people, seeing the country from a boxcar is the ultimate freedom. But as an October fatality indicates, it can come with a price. By Nina Shapiro

  • News

    May 31, 2006

    Georgetown Garbage War

    Once again, residents of an aggrieved Seattle neighborhood are facing off against a city bureaucracy.

  • Arts

    February 22, 2006

    All Aboard

    Spirit of Washington Dinner Train says trails shouldn't displace rails, and other news.

  • Arts

    February 2, 2005

    Gregory Blackstock

    Spirit of Washington Dinner Train says trails shouldn't displace rails, and other news.

  • News

    December 3, 2003

    Monorail Roadkill

    It isn't easy being in the path of the Green Lineunless, of course, you've got business or governmental clout.

  • News

    July 9, 2003

    Transportation, Media, and Congress

    It isn't easy being in the path of the Green Lineunless, of course, you've got business or governmental clout.

  • Food

    July 2, 2003

    Food & Beverage News

    It isn't easy being in the path of the Green Lineunless, of course, you've got business or governmental clout.

  • News

    November 14, 2001

    Sounder Logic?

    Sound Transit's other train faces questions over its cost and effectiveness.

  • News

    November 14, 2001

    Transit Traffic

    Few people ride; here's why.

  • News

    May 24, 2000

    The little engine that can't

    Seattle's most neglected landmark, King Street Station, sits crumbling in the middle of downtown's boom.

  • News

    October 20, 1999

    Firing up light rail

    Sims and Schell get into line and a Sound Transit "consensus" is born.

  • News

    August 25, 1999

    In Singapore the trains got built on time

    Sims and Schell get into line and a Sound Transit "consensus" is born.

  • News

    July 14, 1999

    Downtown showdown

    Seattle's business interests ask: Should we drop light rail?

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