When they say, “World-Famous San Diego Zoo”, they ain’t kidding! My daughter had arranged for a kind of insiders tour and it included a close look at a number of very special animals. For instance, an Arctic Wolf. This gy would look around placidly, then — quite sudden,y — would go almost rigid and…
Many Amtrak passengers are surprised to learn that almost all the track actually owned by Amtrak is along the Northeast Corridor between Boston and Washington. Anywhere else across the U.S., their train is traveling on track owned by one of the major freight railroads. There are ongoing and inherent problems from this arrangement, mostly passenger…
The people who constantly generate anti-Amtrak editorials and op-ed pieces in the media drive me crazy … especially when they go after Amtrak’s long-distance trains. In most cases, they either make unsupportable statements or get their “facts” completely wrong. The former group reminds me of the line that originally came from Lucy in an old…
Amtrak’s train # 3, the Southwest Chief, leaves Chicago’s Union Station daily in the mid-afternoon on its two-night journey to Los Angeles. These photos were taken during my early-October trip aboard this train. I boarded the train in Galesburg, Illinois, a town about 200 miles southwest of Chicago and just a few miles from where…