Yesterday an email popped up from a couple planning a cross-country train ride. They want to know which of the western trains out of Chicago I would recommend. I...
I got a listicle by email this morning. That’s a recently created word referring to a newspaper or magazine article that lists ten or twelve of anything: the ten most...
When the national news media writes about Amtrak, it’s almost always about the Northeast Corridor and usually about late trains or service disruptions because of bad weather. Trains running on...
My personal worst-case Amtrak scenario is that they will conspire to get rid of the Pacific Parlour Cars on the Coast Starlight and justify it by claiming the cars are...