Weekly Roundup Friday 11 August 2011
Good morning A couple of weeks ago we were celebrating the 50th birthday of the IBM Selectric typewriter. There’s another 50th birthday this week, this time for the Jaguar E-Type. Although only 70,000 cars were …
Good morning A couple of weeks ago we were celebrating the 50th birthday of the IBM Selectric typewriter. There’s another 50th birthday this week, this time for the Jaguar E-Type. Although only 70,000 cars were …
Good morning The big news of the week was Wednesday’s announcement by American Airlines of their order for 460 new planes, which I quickly analyzed and sent out a commentary on immediately thereafter. If you …
What part of ‘there is no law against taking pictures of trains’ does the Maryland Transit Authority police not understand? This isn’t rocket science, and these people are specialist transport police. Look at this video …
Good morning Summer is making increasingly promising noises of its pending arrival on our doorstep any day now. In my case it has resulted in needing to buy a new mower to replace my old …
Good morning And happy Tax Day for another year. Other interesting anniversaries this week are the 50th anniversary of the first man in space and the 99th anniversary of the Titanic sinking. The more we …
Maybe you've been to Britain and to Scotland before. But have you been to the islands off Scotland's west coast? Have you ventured up into the wilds of the highlands, way north of Inverness? …
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It has been a dismal week for air travel with weather related disruptions messing up much of the East coast; although the real focus on weather this week has to be on Australia and the …
Good morning Welcome to 2011 and the hope and promise of the year that lies ahead. So far, the year is off to a good start, with no terrorist acts over the Christmas/New Year period, …
Good morning And hello from Brussels, where I'm writing this on Thursday evening. Pictured is the 'Atomium' structure which has sort of become an iconic image for Brussels. It was built for the 1958 World …
More good news for rail fans. The German rail operator, Deutsche Bahn, is moving forward with plans to run trains all the way to London (through the Channel Tunnel), and sent a test train to …
Two more items of rail news. First, some good news from Amtrak, reporting a record number of passengers for their fiscal year which ends on 30 September. Ridership was up almost 6% on the previous …
Lots more train news this week, most of it good, some of it surprising. Eurostar have announced a £700 million (about US$1.15 billion) program investing in new train sets that will go even faster than …