There was a time when George Will wrote columns that were entertaining and made sense. Of course, those were the ones about baseball, a subject of which he has considerable knowledge. After a Will column that appeared a week ago, cleverly called “Off the Rails at Amtrak”, it’s quite clear that George Will knows next…
Someone has come up with what certainly seems like a great idea. It’s called the SleepBus and the people behind it may have found an answer to a need no one knew we had: cheap, comfortable, overnight transportation between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Meet the SleepBus. Uh . . . Do ya think…
Prince, West Virginia, is the latest Amtrak station to lose its station agent and the locals are unhappy. One, a lady named Kristy Roberson, was upset enough to send me a note. For her, it just doesn’t seem right that Amtrak has basically abandoned the station. “It has been manned as long as I…
We are not alone. Came an email the other day from one of our readers in Australia with the unhappy news that there is going to be a cut-back of service on their two marvelous trans-continental trains, the Indian Pacific, which operates east-west between Sydney and Perth, and the Ghan, which runs north-south between Darwin…