The Northeast Corridor – that’s the roughly 440 miles between Washington and Boston via New York City – is Amtrak‘s busiest route. Northbound trains out of New York travel along...
Here’s a sad statistic: Amtrak is allotted less than 1 percent of the total federal transportation budget. (As embarrassing as that is, it would be zero if Bush and McCain...
I was discussing grade crossing accidents with an Amtrak engineer a few years back and he gave me a graphic example of what it’s like when a train hits a...
To stay up-to-date with the latest news related to Amtrak or train travel, I use Google Alert, which automatically sends me news items containing those key words. Pretty slick. Pretty...