All Episodes

Panel Discussion: Solutionary Earth Day Special—Pivoting Rail From Problem to Solution

Interview: Questioning Staggers—Greed without Guardrails? (w/ Arnav Rao)

Interview: How Deregulated Railroads Sacrificed Service in Pursuit of Profit (w/ Ken Kirschling)

Interview: Origins of Precision Scheduled Railroading and the Financialization of U.S. Rail Transport (w/ John Strong)

Interview: When the Community Speaks Up—Rail Safety Edition (w/ Jess Conard)

Preview: Organizing for Community Safety with East Palestine Resident and Rail Watch Founder Jess Conard

Interview: Congress Must Act to Protect Rail Shippers from Wall Street Greed (w/ Ann Warner)

Interview: Captive Shippers and Their Fight for Reasonable and Reliable Rail Service (w/ Emily Regis)

Episode 4. Private Railroads for Public Purpose: Battles, Misadventures, and Extraordinary Measures (Part 1)

Interview: U.S. Railroads' Endgame Moment (w/ Byron Porter)

Interview: Why Railroad Workers Are Fighting the Proposed UP-NS Merger (w/ Ron Kaminkow)

Interview: Taking on Wall Street—and its Railroads (w/ Former Congressman Peter DeFazio)

Interview: A Labor Leader's Take on Railroad Mega-Merger, Cross-modal Solidarity, New Legislation, and More (w/ Greg Regan)

Interview: How to Fix the U.S. Railroad Problem—and the Country (w/ Phillip Longman)

Interview: History of U.S. Antimonopoly Law (w/ Basel Musharbash)

Interview: Bill Hutchison and Ed D'Amato's Proposal to Fix U.S. Passenger Rail

Rail Bite #9: The Loss of Railroading Knowledge and Its Impact on Passenger Service (w/ Tom White)

Panel Discussion on US Passenger Rail Featuring Meredith Richards, John Robert Smith & Tom White

Episode 3. Amtrak's Genesis and the Ongoing Struggle to Reclaim the Public Purpose of Passenger Rail (Part 2)

Rail Bite #8: Economic Benefits of Passenger Rail and Why Frequent Service is Pivotal for Strong Ridership (w/ Meredith Richards)

Rail Bite #7: Bullet Train Hype and the Need for Better Conventional Passenger Service (w/ Tom White)

Rail Bite #6: Why the U.S. Has So Little Amtrak Service (w/ Maddock Thomas)

Rail Bite #5: Should Passenger Rail Be Privatized? (w/ Knox Ross)

Rail Bite #4: The Unlikely Coalition Reviving Passenger Rail Across Southern Montana (w/ Dave Strohmaier)

Rail Bite #3: The Problem with Expecting Trains to Turn a Profit (w/ David Alff)

Rail Bite #2: Virginia's Passenger Rail Renaissance (w/ Meredith Richards)

Rail Bite #1: Why Passenger Rail Matters for Communities (w/ John Robert Smith)

Episode 2. From Bloom to Bailout: A History of US Passenger Rail (Part 1)

Episode 1. Reconnect America

Reconnect America: Trailer