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...