As I write this, the Southwest Chief is sitting in the Albuquerque station, the locomotives refueled, the windows washed. Earlier today, somewhere near Gallup, I went on line with my...
LOS ANGELES–One of the pleasures of travel–at least for me–is meeting and having conversations with other people. Not last night. The guy next to me sat in stony silence for...
President Trump has nominated Lynn Westmoreland, a former Republican congressman from Georgia, to fill a vacancy on the Amtrak Board of Directors. (Amtrak board members are nominated by the president...
Most mainlanders think we have beautiful, balmy weather here year ‘round. Would that were so. I don’t know what it was like on any of the other islands, but on...