As Amtrak’s cost-cutting efforts continue, another Amtrak station will soon be unmanned. This time it’s Rugby, North Dakota. The station agent there is being transferred to Minot, some 65 miles...
I have only a dim memory of the original Pennsylvania Station in New York City. It was probably sometime around 1950 over Spring break and we were on the way...
Amtrak has just announced its intention to stop staffing yet another of the stations on one of its long-distance routes. Some weeks ago, the bell tolled for Hastings, Nebraska,...
Aw, gee … now there’s another one. Congressman Phil Gingrey, a Republican from Georgia, has introduced a bill that would prohibit any federal dollars from being used to subsidize Amtrak’s food and...