By Alissa Walker, Curbed; March 28, 2019
In recent years, the dream of efficient, affordable rail travel in the U.S. has morphed from a romantic vision of slow-motion sightseeing into a high-speed, high-tech solution to the country’s emissions crisis.
For some, that future can’t arrive soon enough. As a locomotive engineer for Amtrak, Blake Phillips-Rios has a unique perspective of the challenges facing the industry—and a lot of ideas for how to get the country’s trains moving again.