Efforts to improve passenger train service that seem to be making headway are those with active citizen advocacy. When the squeaky wheel is applied, it works. Uh … well, OK...

Two of Amtrak’s long-distance trains—the Sunset Limited and the Cardinal—currently run on a three-days-a-week schedule. I’m sure the appropriate people at Amtrak would be able to provide their reasons in...

It has now been more than ten years since the Sunset Limited operated between New Orleans and Orlando. Back in 2005, Hurricane Katrina tore up a lot of the track...

As covered in the previous post, the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act contains a brief paragraph directing the Secretary of Transportation to organize a Working Group to study the...

There’s another very important provision in the draft of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act that was agreed upon by the House-Senate conference committee. It’s a very long, very...

OK, this could be a scoop … a bit of inside info … a possible sneak peak at some of Amtrak’s future plans that are yet to be announced. Here’s...

One of the frustrating aspects of NARP’s passenger rail advocacy is coming up against those influential members of Congress who are anti-Amtrak as a matter of political philosophy or ideology....

In his wonderful book, Waiting on a Train, James McCommons interviews a former Union Pacific Railroad executive. When discussing problems Amtrak has running on time over tracks owned and controlled...

One of the keys to putting together a really worthwhile train trip, or making a good one even better, is to travel with several specific objectives … or even a...

There are some unfathomable things about Amtrak and the way it operates—or doesn’t— that drives many of us crazy. Like the apparent lack of enthusiasm for restoring the Sunset Limited’s...