2025 Highlights & CT petition to sign
Favorite posts from Train Time this year, as we prepare for 2026
Here’s a new link for the petition “Urge Connecticut to study Maybrook & Housatonic Line reactivation" and below you’ll see 9 favorite posts from 2025. We’re just getting started. Please jump aboard!
Trains will take us higher
Imagine this: you and your friends have tickets to the ultimate throwback concert—Creed, 311, and O.A.R.—at the Hartford Healthcare Amphitheater in Bridgeport. You meet up at your house, snap some photos, and walk five minutes to your local Metro-North station. Aboard the tr…
Canaan-Pittsfield electric service now
In the autumn of 2021, I took a train to central Pennsylvania to see and ride Pop-Up Metro’s demonstration battery train that Train Campaign colleagues and I thought might be appropriate for the Berkshire Line. I discussed the prospect with Rep Smitty Pignatelli and with the Berkshire Regional Planning Commission, and arranged a telephone meeting betwee…
The happy way to travel
The Berkshire Eagle once ran an article about the Train Campaign that began "If you ask Karen Christensen, it’s never a bad time to talk about trains.”
Danbury is trying to get on track
This story was originally published by The Connecticut Mirror (www.CTMirror.org) and is republished here with permission.
Imagine the CT Housatonic Line
A guest post by Connecticut resident Matt Silber. Train Time welcomes guest posts and podcast suggestions.
The social life of public (transit) spaces
As Karen Christensen prepares to head to China - first speaking about how civilizations learn from one another, and then exploring third places in Shanghai - she and Matt Silber discuss the social life of public transit. They draw from experiences in different countries and times, and explore how train travel is both a chance to interact with strangers …
What's up with Connecticut?
Northwestern Connecticut has its own identity, and challenges. At the same time, we are neighbors with common cause. That is why the Train Campaign, before the pandemic, worked to support rail revival efforts in the Nutmeg State. (It’s also called the Constitution State.)
What's happening with the Berkshire Line?
The real question is What should be happening with the Berkshire Line? But, first, here’s a summary about here things stand, written for the Stockbridge Updates newsletter.
If you missed the story about why we had to change petition platforms, here it is.
We’re starting afresh at the Moveon.org site and you can sign here (with no request that you “chip in” to the tech company running it). You might also want to support the petition or the Train Campaign (via tax-deductible donation), but that’s entirely up to you. We are volunteers, and welcome your help in 2026.
The Train Campaign, which hosts the Train Time media project, was inspired by people who longed to see passenger rail service in the US to rival the services they had enjoyed elsewhere in the world. That vision remains strong today!
Do you have a story about a favorite train trip? We’d love to read it.
We wish you a very happy New Year!
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