Well, with some of them anyway. A few years back, Amtrak placed an order with Siemens Mobility for 75 brand new, state-of-the-art diesel locomotives. They’re referred to by the manufacturer...

Years ago, I worked with a man who was a curator at the  Honolulu Museum of Art. He and his wife had moved here some six months earlier from Minnesota....

I’m never surprised when people I meet on one of my long-distance train rides ask questions about life in Hawaii. Over lunch in the dining car on my most recent...

As I write this, it’s not quite midnight on Sunday here in Hawaii and I was about to go to bed. But, I said to myself, I think I’ll take...