Back in September, the Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Transportation published a report listing the causes of delays to Amtrak trains outside the Northeast Corridor (Washington-Boston). 1. Dispatchers...
LOS ANGELES –I arrived here this morning on the Southwest Chief after the two night trip from Galesburg, Illinois. By my watch, we pulled into Los Angeles Union Station at...
On-time performance for Amtrak trains has been a problem for years. Sometimes there’s a stretch when it’s not so bad, but it seems those times are invariably followed by a...
Two years ago, my wife and I were on Amtrak’s Coast Starlight traveling from Seattle to Los Angeles. The scheduled arrival time in Los Angeles is 9:00 p.m., but we...