Tag Archives: Railroad

Amtrak’s R.I. rural removal

Posted on January 16, 2017 by David Brussat

If the description by two Charlestown, R.I., town council leaders of Amtrak’s plan for an alternate route through that town are accurate, the proposal must be stopped. It is no less than “rural removal,” same as the old “urban removal” … Continue reading →

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Choo-choo afternoon

Posted on October 19, 2014 by David Brussat

Spent an hour at the model train show in the Pawtucket Armory on Sunday afternoon. Superlative setups, though not as many as we had hoped, and most were linear, with mostly HO-scale trains choo-choo’ing up and down long, narrow platforms … Continue reading →

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