As I write this, it’s not quite midnight on Sunday here in Hawaii and I was about to go to bed. But, I said to myself, I think I’ll take a quick peek at the Intercity Rail Map–I wrote about it a couple of days ago–and see if any of Amtrak’s long-distance trains are having…
Just when you think you’re all set . . . when you’ve printed up copies of your itinerary for family members . . . when all of the details are firmly fixed in your head . . . that’s when glitches occur and little-but-important details start to get muddled. My latest glitch showed up a…
It’s a damn sorry state of affairs when Congress has to pass a law to be sure that an existing law is enforced. The law not being enforced is the 1971 legislation that created Amtrak and specifically stated that Amtrak trains could, in exchange for fair compensation, run their passenger trains on track owned by…