Ask a hundred Amtrak passengers what’s the biggest problem with long-distance train travel and I’ll bet you a box of donuts that the most frequent answer will be that trains often run late. I’ll also wager that most of those people don’t know – and probably don’t care – that Amtrak doesn’t actually own the…
I love to travel by train and use every possible excuse to do so. Unlike air travel, you’ll find that almost everyone on board a train is enjoying the experience. Well … OK … I will concede that those of us who usually ride in the privacy and comfort of a sleeping car may be…
SEATTLE – My brother-in-law, Peter, and I have almost completed our trans-continental rail journey, the last segment being our ride to Los Angeles today aboard Amtrak’s Coast Starlight. We arrived here yesterday at 12:30 p.m. on the Empire Builder from Chicago, just about two hours late. It was one of those trips when the Amtrak…