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2nd QUARTER 2024: This issue of PTJ compares and contrasts the development and implementation of high-speed rail (HSR) in the United States and Japan. This year marks the 60th anniversary of Japan’s Shinkansen, the famous “bullet trains” that launched the global HSR movement in 1964, and Editor Kevin J. Holland takes readers on a colorful tour of Japan’s past and present Shinkansen services. Surveying the American HSR landscape, Bill Anderson looks back at the debut of the Metroliners, the high-speed electrified trains developed in the 1960s as U.S. transportation planners took stock of those recent Japanese developments. Our coverage wraps up with a survey by Kevin McKinney and Kent Patterson of HSR developments both proposed and under construction, and an analysis by industry insider Brooks A. Bentz on the realities of funding. All this and more in the 2nd Quarter 2024 issue of Passenger Train Journal!

Current Issue

Vol. 48, No. 3 (2024-3)
Issue No. 300

Features:

Journal Spotlight

  • CPKC’s “Final Spike Tour”
  • Anthony Haswell, a Remembrance
  • New Life for Detroit’s Michigan Central Station
  • The on-again, off-again Adirondack at 50

Celebrating Issue 300 • by Kevin McKinney — Reflections on PTJ’s origins and evolution.

In the Late ’70s, Editing PTJ Was Intermodal • by Kevin P. Keefe — An improbable alliance got the job done.

Charger Country • by Kevin J. Holland — The new profile(s) of North American passenger railroading.

Silver Meteor Now and Then • by Karl Zimmermann — Memorable trips to Florida with Seaboard Coast Line and Amtrak.

The PTJ All-Time Index Update • by George Fletcher — Summarizing every issue since 2008-4.

Amtrak Diaries, Part 11 • by Mark W. Jones — Jonesy’s Big Adventure continues during a 1988 Canadian vacation.

Departments

On the Point/Editorial by Kevin J. Holland

The Journal/News compiled by Kevin McKinney

North American Intercity/Kevin McKinney

Window on the World/Kevin McKinney

Rail Users’ Network/Richard Rudolph, PhD, Rail Users’ Network

Capitol Unlimited/Jim Mathews, Rail Passengers Association

Rush Hour/Kevin McKinney and Scott Ornstein

Transport Action Canada/Terence Johnson, Transport Action Canada

Mail, Express, and L.C.L./letters from our readers

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