Here are a number of photos I took while traveling from Sydney to Perth a number of years ago on the Indian Pacific, so named because the train travels across...

Every so often I come across something having to do with railroads that I have never seen or heard of before. Here’s one of those:    This photo, taken by...

 It will be weeks before there any conclusions about the New Jersey Transit accident yesterday morning. What we do know is that one person was killed and 109 were injured....

A veteran Amtrak employee once said to me that if you can’t be flexible, you’d better not work for the railroad. It’s very true and, in fact, the more I...

Oh, please! Not another crisis! Well, probably not, but the potential is there for an end, albeit temporary, to a lot of passenger rail service in the country.   It...

Travel by train around the United States and, if you’re paying attention, you’ll soon notice that Amtrak engineers blow the whistle quite a lot. And if you’re really paying attention,...

One of the remarkable things about trains and train travel is the fact that modern railroads are still using technology that’s 150 or so years old. Certainly, there have been...

The severe storms that have been hammering the east coast over the past several days disrupted a lot of travel plans. Many of the people attending the NARP meetings in...

Over the past few years, in what could almost be considered a crash program, the Spanish have tied together almost all of their major cities into AVE*, Spain’s high-speed rail...

A Conversation:How come you travel by train when it’s so much faster to fly? You mean, like from your office in Philly to your client’s office in DC? Yeah! The...