For years now there has been an effort to discredit and subsequently eliminate Amtrak’s long-distance trains.  Most of it is based on a false premise: that the long-distance trains are...

If you have never  been on a long-distance train, I’ll acknowledge you might have a hard time understanding how anyone could justify taking three days to cross the country when...

How many times have I gazed out of the window of my roomette and noticed something interesting in a small town—in Oregon or Montana or maybe in Upper New York...

Westbound out of Chicago on the Southwest Chief about a dozen years ago, I awoke on the first morning and peered out the window to find that we were stopped...