I suppose it’s a sure sign of approaching an advanced age when we realize how dramatically things have changed since we were kids … and can’t stop talking about it....

Through the magic of Google Search, I try to keep track of news about passenger trains from here and there and there’s no end to the news stories that pop...

It was during a visit with my mother’s family in St. Louis, probably in 1948 or ‘49, that I saw a televised baseball game for the first time. My grandfather...