After a while, you begin to notice. It could be a state Department of Transportation in the Mid-west or a citizens’ group somewhere in the South. But people are starting...

A steward in a VIA Rail dining car once remarked to me that “you gotta be flexible to work for a railroad.” Case in point: On Wednesday morning, I boarded...

Amtrak’s OTP (on time performance) has improved quite a bit over the past year or so, but for far too long it had been abysmal. How abysmal? Well, three years...