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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. 2 (2024-2)
Issue No. 299

Journal Spotlight

  • FRA identifies 15 preferred long-distance routes.
  • Mexico continues passenger train expansion.

Features:

60 years of Shinkansen • by Kevin J. Holland — In the world of high speed rail, Japan is where it all began.

Metroliner • by Bill Anderson — The train that did it.

The American High-Speed landscape in 2024 • by Kevin McKinney & Kent Patterson— A survey of current projects and proposals.

Taking a Knife to a Gunfight • by Brooks A. Bentz — The myth and reality of passenger train economics.

Tren Maya in Person • by Ted Rafuse — A first-hand look at Mexico’s new passenger service.

Trip Report: VIA’s Venture Fleet • by Ira Silverman — Sampling VIA’s new Corridor trains

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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