A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that NARP—that’s the National Association of Railroad Passengers—is campaigning for Amtrak to increase the frequency of the Cardinal. The train now operates three...
Several years ago, following a deadly collision in California, Congress directed the nation’s railroads to install a safety system known as PTC (Positive Train Control). It uses global positioning and...
Amtrak’s Cardinal is my favorite eastern train. It operates in both directions between Chicago and New York’s Penn Station, passing through some of the loveliest country east of the Mississippi,...
An alert reader has pointed out that a relevant bit of information was left out of my last post about Amtrak’s On Time Performance: the official tolerances or wiggle room...