Ask a hundred Amtrak passengers what’s the biggest problem with long-distance train travel and I’ll bet you a box of donuts that the most frequent answer will be that trains...
SEATTLE – My brother-in-law, Peter, and I have almost completed our trans-continental rail journey, the last segment being our ride to Los Angeles today aboard Amtrak’s Coast Starlight. We arrived...
Three years ago, when I took the Coast Starlight from Seattle to Los Angeles, we didn’t pull into LA’s Union Station until 4:00 in the morning … seven hours late....
Amtrak’s OTP (on time performance) has improved quite a bit over the past year or so, but for far too long it had been abysmal. How abysmal? Well, three years...