I’ve written more than a few times about my admiration for the really good crews working Amtrak’s long-distance trains … the ones when one car attendant will stay awake...
I just finished sending some testimony into the Surface Transportation Board. That agency is undertaking a review of regulations regarding Amtrak’s on-time performance … or “OTP” as the insiders say....
Six years ago, I took VIA Rail’s wonderful trans-continental train, The Canadian, and got off in Winnipeg. Two days later—it was about the third week of October—I boarded Train 693,...