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Excerpts from My Travel Journal.

ByJim Loomis 04/29/202004/29/2020

NEW ORLEANS, LA — I had lunch in the Crescent’s dining car coming here from Washington. A man in his mid-40s was seated across from me when the train stopped in an attractive town. Lips curled and jaw set, my lunch companion peered out the window. “Tuscaloosa, Alabama,” he muttered softly under his breath and…

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Amtrak Connections are Risky.

ByJim Loomis 06/16/201906/16/2019

When I book train travel for myself, I seldom include connections from one Amtrak train to another. And, when asked by other rail travelers about connections, my response almost always is, “You’ll probably be OK, but if something happens on the day your traveling, you’re screwed.”  Instead of taking a chance—even though the odds are…

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