Posted on August 6th, 2011 by Winston Smith
(1) Window of the World (2) FIAT Drive In (3) Ryōmō Line (3a) East Japan Railway Company (3b) Iwafune Station (3c) Tribute to Makoto Shinkai (Part III) (4) Tony Parsons jets into Heathrow airport as writer-in-residence (4a) Heathrow writers-in-residence give new meaning to airport novels (5) The One Airport to Avoid Is… (WSJ)
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Posted on July 31st, 2011 by Winston Smith
(1) Trouble on the China Express (WSJ) In a blistering essay titled “The Derailed Country,” posted online this past week and then quickly removed by censors, Han Han, one of China’s most popular bloggers, mocked the leadership for what he characterized as a heartless approach to development. “They think: ‘We built this. We built that. […]
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Posted on July 24th, 2011 by Winston Smith
(1) Un’Introduzione al Disegno Italiano (2) China Train Crash Shows Fast Expansion Problems (3) Spending dispute halts airport construction (3a) Dulles Metro station should be functional and awe-inspiring (3b) Airports authority endorses aboveground Dulles rail station (4) It’s a new day.
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Posted on July 7th, 2011 by Winston Smith
Absolutely gorgeous summer day in New England! (1) Bright Colors Struggle to Bloom in South Korea’s Silver-Car Nation (WSJ) (2) Adventure on the Rails (WSJ Magazine) (3) Custom Cycling’s Big Wheel (WSJ) He hired two people to take care of the business side of the shop. ‘The big thing I have learned is to free […]
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Posted on March 2nd, 2011 by Winston Smith
China’s High-Speed Rail, Highly Suspect Related High Speed Rail To Nowhere…Winning The Future A Wasted Billion At A Time
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Posted on December 11th, 2010 by Winston Smith
(1) The Twilight of Battle The Fighting Temeraire by J.M.W. Turner “The great battleship being towed up the Thames by a squat, steam-powered paddle-wheel tug. All the glory of the past is being dragged to oblivion beneath the cloud-haunted light of a setting sun. It is a picture that tells a story, and it is […]
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Posted on December 2nd, 2010 by Winston Smith
Title: Sanriku Railway Company’s 25th Anniversary Illustration: Mibu Natsuki
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Posted on November 13th, 2010 by Winston Smith
Metro-North Pulls Ahead Disney Profit Declines 6.7% Advertising students at Northwood University working on Honda campaign (My Alma Mater) “The point is when they want to paint you as nuts and yahoos, don’t help them paint you as nuts and yahoos.” – Peggy Noonan
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Posted on September 4th, 2010 by Winston Smith
(1) Review: 2011 Honda CR-Z – This car looks like it was plucked from Walt Disney’s vision of the future (EPCOT). (2) Cruising Across Campus? Get This Cozy Commuter (3) Volvelle (Wheel Chart) (4) Thinking Outside the Stocks
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Posted on August 21st, 2010 by Winston Smith
(1) High-Speed-Rail Costs Irk States (2) Information Overload Is Nothing New (3) Who’s ObamaCare’s Daddy? (4) The End of Management
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Posted on July 10th, 2010 by Winston Smith
(1) Train Etiquette – A grumpy 22 year old’s code of locomotive conduct. (2) A Modest Proposal for Improving a Dull Game (WSJ) “Poor Ghana has been triumphed over by British, Portuguese, German, Dutch and Danish colonialists, the Kwame Nkrumah regime, a CIA-sponsored coup and at least four other coups just since the 1900s. But […]
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