In late March, I’ll be making my annual visit to Washington for the Rail Passengers Association’s Spring meeting. It’s a day of education and enlightenment with seminars and guest speakers....

I had an interesting conversation the other day with someone who has been around the intelligentsia, the rich, and the powerful throughout his professional career. Furthermore, he’s familiar with and...

In October, I’ll be attending the annual Fall meeting of RPA, the Rail Passengers Association, which will be held in Miami, Florida. I spent an hour or so today putting...

  “Double the frequency; triple the ridership.” old railroad adage   Amtrak’s overnight train, the Cardinal, is the most scenic of the long-distance trains running in the eastern part of...

Rumor and speculation are running rampant within the passenger rail community. One reader reports hearing that the geniuses running Amtrak are going to take the full service dining car off...

The news today, although cryptic and incomplete, is that the operation of the Hoosier State, which runs four days a week between Chicago and Indianapolis, is going back to Amtrak....

 Wow! It appears that a number of forces have combined and there is actual movement toward a daily Cardinal. Ironically, the recent flooding in parts of West Virginia has played...

Amtrak’s train, the Cardinal, gets my vote for the most scenic of all the eastern trains. It takes a meandering southern route between Chicago and New York City, passing through...

Prince, West Virginia, is the latest Amtrak station to lose its station agent and the locals are unhappy. One, a lady named Kristy Roberson, was upset enough to send me...

Some years back, I met a woman over lunch on Amtrak’s train #51, the westbound Cardinal. I was heading for Chicago following a NARP meeting in Washington. She had some...