For years now there has been an effort to discredit and subsequently eliminate Amtrak’s long-distance trains.  Most of it is based on a false premise: that the long-distance trains are...

by Matt Melzer   Twenty-one small towns may soon lose all air service under the Essential Air Service (EAS) program due to underperformance. Critics of passenger train subsidies inevitably point...

As many of you know, I serve on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Railroad Passengers—now known simply as the Rail Passengers Association. RPA is a non-profit...

  New Locomotives   The Amtrak Cascades, which operate in the busy 310-mile long corridor from Vancouver, BC to Eugene, Oregon, by way of Seattle and Portland, have just taken...