OK, I confess. I’m going to be taking VIA Rail’s trans-Canada train again. In the middle of April, following the annual meeting of the National Association of Railroad Passengers (NARP) in Washington, I’ll take Amtrak up to Toronto, then board VIA’s train #1, the Canadian, for the ride to Vancouver on the Pacific Coast. …
Amtrak has just announced that Business Class will now be an option for passengers on the Cardinal. Initial reaction has been positive, and why not? Certainly any upgrade in service anywhere these days is welcome. It’s not clear at the moment what the specifics are, but the best guess is half of a café car…
I spent some time this afternoon going through some photos I took on a couple of my longer train rides. Back in ’08, I sold a story to the Dallas Morning News, the hook being that I would travel literally around the country by train, starting and ending in Los Angeles. I took the Sunset…
I’ve noted here several times that I think that the Cardinal is the most scenic of Amtrak’s eastern trains. OK, now I’ll qualify that and say, for the number of days that the Fall colors are at their peak, the most scenic train in Amtrak’s system is the Adirondack. This train, which runs daily in…