Blog posts
August 03, 2015
As has happened a bit too much recently, I received a shock on Friday afternoon. I found out that one of my close friends in the industry, Mike Paras, general manager of transportation for the Belt Railway of Chicago had passed away suddenly the day before.
July 27, 2015
Over the years, I’ve made no secret about my general dislike of being on the road.
July 06, 2015
Over the last couple of weeks I have been dealing with PTC a little bit more than usual, and mostly on the political side.
June 10, 2015
On June 1, at 3:30 pm, I left the Morristown & Erie.(Right now, some of you are saying, “come on, Friedland, you have done that more than 4000 times before, what’s special about that?”)On June 1, at 3:30 pm, I left the Morristown & Erie after almost 21 ½ years full
May 26, 2015
Everyone has a voice. Some of us sing with it, some of us yell with it, others use the written word to be heard. Our country was founded on the principle that everyone has a voice, and you can use that voice to communicate with the people we have chosen to run it.
May 15, 2015
The final rule came out last week on tanks cars and trains carrying crude oil and ethanol.
April 30, 2015
Kathy Keeney wrote a wonderful remembrance of Reilly McCarren in her blog, and I thought I would toss in a couple of personal notes of my own.
April 30, 2015
Early on in my career as a railroad journalist I was very fortunate to interview and get to know some of the short line industry’s best and brightest.
April 14, 2015
Most of us have had the thrill of getting a toy train as a kid, and for many of us that is what sparked our interest that led to us working in this industry. In my case, things were a little different. You see, my father was a true rail fan, and any trains that I received