Since I’m off to Australia to ride some long-distance trains in another few weeks, I’ve been paying closer attention to any rail news from that part of the world. Yesterday...
It normally takes Amtrak’s train # 370, the Pere Marquette, four hours to make the run from Chicago to Grand Rapids, Michigan. But on one forgettable, very non-normal day a...
Last week, as Amtrak’s eastbound California Zephyr was headed toward Reno, Nevada, a boulder dislodged from the side of one of those mountain passes in the Sierras and rolled into...