The California Zephyr was 40 minutes late leaving Chicago with no explanation given. That doesn’t bode well because the freight railroads create “slots”, narrow openings in their schedules, allowing Amtrak...
The Belmond British Pullman company has restored and refurbished an entire train that now carries lucky people on a variety of rail excursions. The thing is, Belmond transports you back...
Don’t you love that wonderful “I’m mad as hell …” rant that actor Peter Finch immortalized as newscaster Howard Beale in the film “Network”? Well, something like that has just...
I’m always surprised how quickly you can travel from one major city to another here in Europe. The other day we left Bruges on an 8:30 train to Brussels, where...