On one of my first long-distance overnight train rides—I forget where we were going—the on-board service crew included a Chief of On Board Services, an Amtrak employee in white shirt...

NOTE: In addition to my indispensable notebooks, for many years I also took a scanner on my rail ventures. The scanner searches for and finds the radio frequencies used by...

I got an email the other day from someone—a woman— who was aware that Amtrak management has been giving their conductors a hard time. Of course it was a woman...