We weigh in on freightcars...

Rose Baker and I completed a quick and dirty analysis of the employment, income, and tax consequences of the potential loss of a 450-job railcar manufacturing facility in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, at the request of a Johnstown newspaper, The Tribune -Democrat. Here is an Adobe PDF copy of the online version of the article. "Freightcar Exit Would Cost Entire Region," by business reporter, Shawn Piatek, that appeared in print on 24 January 2007:

http://train.ed.psu.edu/weblog/24January07Johnstown.pdf

First coffee of the day is a freebie from the Nittany Lion Inn lobby on the University Park Campus of Penn State University, my beleaguered employer.