railroad real estate

The cost to build a railroad is staggering. Jim Blaze gives an overview of the costs involved in such an endeavor.

Connecting the Alaska Railroad with rail service in Canada and the U.S. is a bold, expensive plan. But it would generate tremendous benefits. Read more here.

Jim Blaze writes about the decisions that will go into determining 2020 capital expenditures by the freight railroads.

Market expert Jim Blaze looks at an under-appreciated asset of North America’s freight railroads – their real estate holdings. Read Jim’s hypothesis of what the railroads might do with this real estate in the near future.