Records and archives
Public records, searchable archives, and dated timelines on the region’s railroads and the agencies that run them.
Public records
Documents as agencies issued them, and the press record around them.
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Penn Station and Gateway document archive
Reports, drawings, contracts, and correspondence on Penn Station, Gateway, and related rail planning, as issued by public agencies, with search across titles and document text.
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Amtrak’s payments to the Regional Plan Association: the press record
Six reports from August to November 2025, each in the publication’s own words.
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Statement on the October 2024 capacity study
The statement issued in response to the Doubling of Trans-Hudson Train Capacity at Penn Station study, with its text unchanged.
Archives
Collections made searchable.
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Mobilizing the Region archive, 1994–2026
The Tri-State Transportation Campaign’s bulletin and blog: 4,090 entries, searchable by word and year.
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Newspaper archives
A century of news coverage of the challenges and proposed solutions for connecting New Jersey and New York City.
Timelines
Dated events, with their sources.
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Pennsylvania Railroad chronology, 1790–1989
101,011 dated events from Christopher T. Baer’s chronology, searchable by year and era.
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Regional governance timeline
118 events in the attempts to govern the region’s transit as one system, 1921 to 2016, each linked to the newspaper article that reported it.
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Study Watch
Tracks whether FRA’s Penn Station commitments hold: the higher-capacity Phase II test, design preservation, methodology, and published evidence.
Working with public records or archives?
I take on records research, operating analysis, and visualization for campaigns, reporters, funders, and legal teams. Reporters can use the same form for interview requests.