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If We Are Serious About Rail...
Bigger Trucks, Smaller Autos
Giving Thanks for Amtrak
Election Implications for Rail
A Tale of Three Rail Tunnels
Consequences of Deregulation
RAIL Intermodal On/Off Ramps
Can Rail Make a Dent in Trucking?
Rail Labor and Productivity
Those Freight RR TV Commercials
Ghost of Train Nos 10 and 29
A Final Round of Big RR Mergers
Dept. of Defense Use of Rail
Redundancy, it's Necessary
Arbor Days on Mainline RRs
Rails to Raleigh, the NC way
Mining Rail Nuggets
Va.'s Rail Turnaround
Industrial Sprawl and Rusty Rails
Warren Buffet, RRs & Virginia
Practical Limits of  Productivity
Population, Jobs & Rail Freight
Hampton Roads Rail Plan
Facing Domestic Transport Realities

        Dick Beadles, an organizer and founding member of the Virginia Rail Policy Institute board, as well as being a VRPI fellow, is an independent rail and transportation analyst, commentator and critic.
   He has had extensive experience in both rail transportation and urban real estate asset management and development. Originally an up-from-the-ranks railroader, becoming President of the RF&P Railroad, Beadles has had more than fifty years experience as both a practitioner, as well as follower, of transportation and land planning, development and asset management with both the RF&P and CSX.

   His cogent comments and observations are his views, and have not been adopted as policy statements by the Virginia Rail Policy Institute.

   Read his blogs exclusively here. Send Dick an email.

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