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....

Good Luck with This. One of the transportation goals being advocated by the National Association of Railroad Passengers NARP) is “connectivity”, meaning that we should be able to transfer smoothly...

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...

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...

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...

 Comes now Eurostar announcing that they’re ordering a whole new fleet of trainsets which will go into service at the end of next year. The new equipment will run at...

After many years of thinking about it, I’m finally going to take VIA Rail’s wonderful trans-Canada ride in the middle of winter. VIA announced a 50% off sale a week...

I suppose so. The airlines and Amtrak and the hotels are all doing their best to squeeze every last dollar of revenue out of us, albeit for different reasons. As...

I’m leaving in about an hour on a three week trip that includes (1) a brief visit with my daughter and her family in the San Diego area, (2) the...

Enlightened managers of successful companies know that their employees make the difference between success and failure. That’s certainly true of Amtrak. Finding a good attendant assigned to your sleeping car...