Yesterday was not a good day for John McCain. For one thing, during a stump speech in Iowa, his running mate, Sarah Palin, ran through a list of the wondrous...
Amtrak was created back in the early 70s because railroads operating at the time desperately wanted to get out of the passenger business. Why? Because the money was in freight...
From time to time, I’ve received comments and emails — not all favorable — about the posts that stray from “Travel” and “Trains” and wander off into “Other Things.” Sometimes...
“When they told me yesterday what had happened, I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me.” Harry Truman, to reporters after the death...