He once said, “You get a real feeling of this country and the people in it when you’re on a train.” He was right, too. When you take a long-distance...
Harry Truman was trailing badly in the 1948 presidential campaign, but he took his case directly to the people of small-town America by train … and he won. Senator Barak...
If I had to make a choice among Amtrak’s long-distance trains, it would be the Empire Builder, which operates daily between Chicago and either Seattle, Washington, or Portland, Oregon. I’ve...
“We simply cannot keep going on sending empty trains clear across the country with no riders.” — Rep. Harold Rogers (R-Ky.) “Americans don’t like to travel that way anymore.” —...