I’ve been having persistent problems with this damn blog. I am unable to figure out why I am sometimes unable to get a space between paragraphs. For example, there should...

It’s 2500 miles from here to the U.S.mainland . . . and that’s just to California. It’s another 2,000–3,000 miles to mainland cities in the mid-west and on the east...

I had a vision last night. In it, Bill Flynn, Amtrak’s new president, was asked to testify before a Congressional committee considering Amtrak’s recent request for a grant of $1.475...

 Amtrak has announced that starting on October 1st they are going to run their long-distance trains on three-days-a-week schedules. Jim Mathews, president and CEO of Rail Passengers Association, harshly condemned...

I’ve been trying to organize my photos and it’s a terrible job. Of course I haven’t filed them very well and–this is most unfortunate!–a lot of them are missing. I...

Amtrak has submitted a request to Congress for a supplementary appropriation of roughly $1.5 billion for the year 2021, bringing the 2-year total requested to $3.54 billion. This second request...

Most veteran train travel enthusiasts have at least one or two stories they like to tell about special moments that have occurred while they have been en route somewhere by...

During the worst days of the coronavirus, people were avoiding crowds, which meant they weren’t traveling. As a consequence, ridership on Amtrak’s long-distance trains dropped to around 15% of capacity,...

Westbound out of Chicago on the Southwest Chief about a dozen years ago, I awoke on the first morning and peered out the window to find that we were stopped...

There are congressional hearings coming up, the results of which could potentially have a big impact on Amtrak and, if you are an Amtrak rider, upon you, too. . These...