Wasting no time, Amtrak’s board of directors today named Joseph Boardman as Amtrak’s new president. He replaces Alex Kummant, who quit a couple of weeks ago after being on the...

Alex Kummant, who has been Amtrak’s Chief Executive Officer for the past two years, abruptly resigned today. There have been some differences of opinion between Kummant and members of the...

As I’ve mentioned on several other occasions, Amtrak’s ridership is up. Way up. In July of this year, Amtrak carried 2,750,278 people. That’s more people than the railroad has carried...