The most frustrating aspect of this whole passenger rail advocacy gig is the vast amount of misinformation out there about train travel—especially about who rides trains and why. It’s particularly...

A few years back, the U.S. Congress passed a law that said individual states had to step up and provide the money to keep Amtrak trains running on routes under...

The Southwest Chief, as most of you probably know, could be rerouted or even discontinued because there are more than 600 miles of track in parts of Kansas, Colorado and...

Many Amtrak passengers are surprised to learn that almost all the track actually owned by Amtrak is along the Northeast Corridor between Boston and Washington. Anywhere else across the U.S.,...

My wife and I will be off on a 12-day trip next week … with some train travel in the mix, of course. After flying to Los Angeles, we’ll take...

Amtrak’s train # 3, the Southwest Chief, leaves Chicago’s Union Station daily in the mid-afternoon on its two-night journey to Los Angeles. These photos were taken during my early-October trip...

Amtrak’s Train #4, the daily Southwest Chief, departs Los Angeles Union Station on time at 6:45 p.m., beginning a two-day, 2,200 mile journey to Chicago. I’ll be leaving the train...