Back after a bit of a hiatus, it’s our latest edition of Recommended Reading: Articles from elsewhere that you might find of interest.
First up this time around, former Trains editor Kevin Keefe wrote our obituary of the late, great Don Phillips, but we thought you might also like to see the Washington Post version, given Phillips’ long tenure with that newspaper. (Unfortunately, it may be paywalled,).
Also, the New York Times — which has provided other transit-oriented Recommended Reading articles in the past — took a look at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s yard sale of odds and ends such as old station signs and surplus subway-station globe lights. This one is not paywalled thanks to the Times’ “gift article” feature.
And finally, the transportation writer for The Scotsman — Scotland’s national newspaper, based in Edinburgh — reports on his first encounter with “track bashers.” Consider it rare-mileage collection at its extreme.
