In late March, I’ll be making my annual visit to Washington for the Rail Passengers Association’s Spring meeting. It’s a day of education and enlightenment with seminars and guest speakers. The next day we meet with members of Congress, followed in turn on Day Three by a three hour business meeting and a final luncheon….
CHICAGO–The Capitol Limited ran on time all the way from Washington to South Bend, Indiana, which is where we ran into some freight traffic.Still, we were only a few minutes late into Chicago’s Union Station. It was a good trip, start to finish. As always, a really good on board crew makes all the difference….
Amtrak has been under pressure from Congress for years—it seems like forever—to cut costs in order to achieve what no other national passenger rail system in the world had been able to do: break even. As it is, Amtrak has made remarkable progress, to the point that they are recovering something like 90% of…
From time to time, I’ve complained here about the folly of operating trains on a less-than-daily schedule. Amtrak has two such trains in its long-distance system: the Sunset Limited running between New Orleans and Los Angeles, and the Cardinal, which takes a southerly route between Chicago and New York. Both trains run in each direction,…