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Episode 5. Profitability at Any Cost: The Price We Paid to Rescue U.S. Railroads
How deregulation reshaped the U.S rail system to keep it in private hands, fueling globalization and leaving smaller shippers and communities behind.
49:23
Episode 1. Reconnect America
Listen now | Railroads: a solution hiding in plain sight.
40:41
Episode 2. From Bloom to Bailout: A History of US Passenger Rail (Part 1)
Listen now | Essential elements in the story of US passenger rail; how the US experiment in private railroads was derailed by public investment in…
28:34
Episode 3. Amtrak's Genesis and the Ongoing Struggle to Reclaim the Public Purpose of Passenger Rail (Part 2)
Listen now (46 mins)
45:57
Panel Discussion: Solutionary Earth Day Special—Pivoting Rail From Problem to Solution
An emergent vision for pivoting from harm to benefit by transitioning U.S. rail from private profit to public purpose.
1:01:02
Interview: Questioning Staggers—Greed without Guardrails? (w/ Arnav Rao)
How deregulatory extremism destroyed competition and abandoned public protection
57:21
Interview: How Deregulated Railroads Sacrificed Service in Pursuit of Profit (w/ Ken Kirschling)
Listen now (62 mins) | Industry veteran recounts the profound shifts that transformed U.S. railroading and its relationship to American communities…
1:01:43
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Solutionary Rail
Solutionary Rail is a people-powered campaign to put American railroads in service of the public interest through rail electrification, shifting freight and people from roads to rail, and using rail corridors to transmit renewable energy.
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