When it comes to food service on Amtrak trains, confusion abounds. All the statements coming out of Amtrak over the past year or so are part of the problem because...

Back in the early 1970s, in exchange for the government’s permission to quit carrying passengers, the nation’s railroads agreed to allow Amtrak trains to run on their tracks for modest-but-fair...

For close to a century, passenger trains were the way people in this country traveled. But then, almost overnight, it all changed. Flying had become more affordable and more accepted....

A few years ago, I was in the railroad station in the Italian town of Lucca, waiting for a train to Florence. An Italian gentleman sitting on a bench near...