I suppose so. The airlines and Amtrak and the hotels are all doing their best to squeeze every last dollar of revenue out of us, albeit for different reasons. As...

The news is coming in bits and pieces, and it’s too early to know for sure how significant it is, but [breaking into song] “It’s beginning to look a lot...

I don’t know if there’s ever been an actual scientific survey, but I’m quite sure that most people riding across the country on an Amtrak train will say what they...

I just received an email from an old prep school classmate with a couple of interesting observations about an extended trip he and his wife recently took on Amtrak. They...

Several interesting items relating to passenger rail have been in the news in just the past couple of days and these three are just the most recent indication that there...

I’m back on the West Coast after traveling to and from my old prep school reunion in Connecticut on four Amtrak trains: the California Zephyr from Sacramento to Chicago and...

A writer friend of mine once told me that everyone has at least one interesting story to tell. The fun, he said, is finding it. It’s a theory I try...

My thanks to the 24 of you who took the time and went to the trouble of emailing me with your views on the proposed cover shot for the 4thedition...

It’s a rule …it’s inevitable … it’s unavoidable: when you travel, stuff happens. Flights are cancelled. Trains are late. And connections are missed. OK, so based on my own experience...

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...