I’m about to wrap up a very nice three-day visit to Seattle which, of course, included another superb dinner at Assaggio, a wonderful Italian restaurant run by my friend Mauro...

First, a disclaimer: I have no prior knowledge of any specific plans for new equipment on the long-distance trains. But, based on God-knows-how-many miles traveled in Superliner sleepers, I do...

If you have never  been on a long-distance train, I’ll acknowledge you might have a hard time understanding how anyone could justify taking three days to cross the country when...

Westbound out of Chicago on the Southwest Chief about a dozen years ago, I awoke on the first morning and peered out the window to find that we were stopped...