A New Train Music-Video. There are lots of railroad songs, and no wonder. There’s a romance to trains and train travel that has inspired songwriters for a hundred years. The...
As Amtrak’s cost-cutting efforts continue, another Amtrak station will soon be unmanned. This time it’s Rugby, North Dakota. The station agent there is being transferred to Minot, some 65 miles...
I really hope that something can be done to ensure better, more consistent on time performance for Amtrak’s long-distance trains. Late trains cost me money. In fact, they costs me...
When you travel by train, stuff happens. On one of my trips, a dining car steward on VIA Rail’s trans-continental train put it rather succinctly: “If you work for the...