Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "The New Electric Railway Journal (ISSN 1048-3845) was a quarterly American magazine primarily about electric urban rail transit in North America, published from 1988 to 1998, with an international circulation. Its name was a tribute to a much earlier magazine with similar coverage, the Electric Railway Journal, published (by McGraw-Hill) from 1908–1931. The first issue was that dated Autumn 1988. The magazine was published by the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation (FCF) for most of its run, from 1988 until mid-1996. Starting with the Summer 1996 issue, publication was transferred to CityRail, Ltd., a not-for-profit corporation based in Illinois. The magazine abbreviated its own name as TNERJ (as opposed to "NERJ").The magazine's publisher was Paul M. Weyrich, a noted American conservative and FCF's founder and president. Weyrich was a longtime advocate of light rail transit and streetcars. As TNERJ publisher, he penned an opinion column for every issue, and he acknowledged that it was unusual for an American political conservative to support government investment in mass transit, but in the magazine he explained why he believed support for urban transit, and particularly rail transit, made sense and did not run counter to what he considered a "proper definition of conservatism." In the magazine's premiere issue, Weyrich wrote that he was "committed to rail transit" and that "rail transit – all but abandoned in the 1950s as yesteryear's mode of transportation – is back in a major way all across the nation." He also made it clear that, while the magazine's commentary sections would generally be advocating investment in rail transit, he and the editors would not hesitate to criticize existing or proposed rail-transit systems when they believed criticism was deserved.Editor-in-Chief of TNERJ for its entire run was Richard R. Kunz, who had previously worked as Rail Transit Editor of Passenger Train Journal.Modes of transportation covered by The New Electric Railway Journal included light rail transit, streetcars, rapid transit (subway/metro) systems, commuter rail, trolley buses and, to a more limited extent, monorails and people-movers. The change to a different publishing company in 1996 did not change the magazine's focus, as the editor-in-chief and most other contributing editors remained the same.Publication ceased in late 1998, when the issue carrying the date of "Winter 1998" was published, as a result primarily of the death of the editor, Richard Kunz."@en }
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- The_New_Electric_Railway_Journal abstract "The New Electric Railway Journal (ISSN 1048-3845) was a quarterly American magazine primarily about electric urban rail transit in North America, published from 1988 to 1998, with an international circulation. Its name was a tribute to a much earlier magazine with similar coverage, the Electric Railway Journal, published (by McGraw-Hill) from 1908–1931. The first issue was that dated Autumn 1988. The magazine was published by the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation (FCF) for most of its run, from 1988 until mid-1996. Starting with the Summer 1996 issue, publication was transferred to CityRail, Ltd., a not-for-profit corporation based in Illinois. The magazine abbreviated its own name as TNERJ (as opposed to "NERJ").The magazine's publisher was Paul M. Weyrich, a noted American conservative and FCF's founder and president. Weyrich was a longtime advocate of light rail transit and streetcars. As TNERJ publisher, he penned an opinion column for every issue, and he acknowledged that it was unusual for an American political conservative to support government investment in mass transit, but in the magazine he explained why he believed support for urban transit, and particularly rail transit, made sense and did not run counter to what he considered a "proper definition of conservatism." In the magazine's premiere issue, Weyrich wrote that he was "committed to rail transit" and that "rail transit – all but abandoned in the 1950s as yesteryear's mode of transportation – is back in a major way all across the nation." He also made it clear that, while the magazine's commentary sections would generally be advocating investment in rail transit, he and the editors would not hesitate to criticize existing or proposed rail-transit systems when they believed criticism was deserved.Editor-in-Chief of TNERJ for its entire run was Richard R. Kunz, who had previously worked as Rail Transit Editor of Passenger Train Journal.Modes of transportation covered by The New Electric Railway Journal included light rail transit, streetcars, rapid transit (subway/metro) systems, commuter rail, trolley buses and, to a more limited extent, monorails and people-movers. The change to a different publishing company in 1996 did not change the magazine's focus, as the editor-in-chief and most other contributing editors remained the same.Publication ceased in late 1998, when the issue carrying the date of "Winter 1998" was published, as a result primarily of the death of the editor, Richard Kunz.".