The St. Paul station has recently been restored and renovated and it’s a magnificent building, although the layout is a bit awkward. The ticket window is just off the street...
The Mississippi River cruise now over, I’m returning home on a round-about route and, of course, by train. The first leg is the City of New Orleans back to Chicago....
PORTLAND–The last of my eight train rides–Seattle to Portland today–was to be the frosting on the cake: a relaxing five-hour ride in the Coast Starlight’s parlor car. Alas, it was...
On Wednesday morning, somewhere in North Dakota, I was ushered to a table in the westbound Empire Builder’s dining car where I joined a couple perhaps in their early sixties....