Just minutes after landing safely on Maui, dazed but relieved passengers are helped down from the battered aircraft by the flight crew. . Thirty-two years ago this past week, an...

NEW ORLEANS, LA — I had lunch in the Crescent’s dining car coming here from Washington. A man in his mid-40s was seated across from me when the train stopped...

My wife and I aren’t going to take any chances. We’re hunkering down here at home for as long as it takes. It’s been a month and a new routine...

Once an Amtrak train starts to move, the conductors are in charge. Through the entire schedule, from departure to arrival at final destination, when “situations” with passengers arise, most conductors...

Amtrak has taken the last remaining dining cars off the five or six long-distance trains operating west of Chicago. All of the long-distance trains, operating everywhere in the country, are...

I managed to cancel most of the reservations for transportation, lodging and entertainment made for the trip I had scheduled for this month. In fact today—I’m writing this on Friday,...

Hudson River Tunnels Project.  I’m preparing a whole post on this subject because it’s certainly one of the most important infrastructure projects being planned anywhere in the country. These are...

Q: When I reserved my roomette on the Southwest Chief, they told me I would have to leave my suitcase on a luggage rack on the lower level, where all...

Some years ago, my wife and I rode the Rocky Mountaineer from Vancouver to Banff. In my review of the experience, I wrote that the passengers who seemed to enjoy...

That is the question. And it’s the question I’ve gotten here more than any other over the years. Should you tip the attendants in the sleeping cars? And, of  course,...