Amtrak’s train, the Adirondack, is a great ride. It runs daily between New York’s Penn Station and Gare Centrale in Montreal. And because today’s topic is food, I cannot resist...

Ask someone who has just made their first long-distance train ride what they liked most about the experience. Then find a veteran rail traveler, someone who’s made a dozen overnight...

John Mica may be gone from the Congress, but his legacy remains and it’s still giving us heartburn. Thanks to Mica and his constant harping, it has somehow become accepted...

by Matt Melzer   Dining by rail has always been an expensive, logistically complex endeavor, with heavy labor and supply costs not seen in normal restaurants. Amtrak’s periodic corner-cutting experiments...

A couple of weeks ago, RPA President and CEO Jim Mathews had a lengthy sit-down with two key Amtrak executives: the President and CEO, Richard Anderson (below) and Chief Commercial...

OK, so in order to show Congress how hard they’re trying to save money, Amtrak has taken the dining cars off the Lake Shore Limited and the Capitol Limited. Now,...

You shelled out 80 bucks and got approved for the TSA Pre-check, but so did most of the people flying today. In fact, it seems as though there are more...

OK, I’ve had it. Here I am in Paris and I would much rather be writing about this glorious city, but moments after firing up my laptop to check emails,...

  I have frequently written about Amtrak onboard crews … about their jobs and how they perform their jobs. And I don’t think I have ever failed to add that,...

The Hotel Pennsylvania is directly across the street from Penn Station and I’ve stayed there several times in the past because of its location. Some of its 1700 rooms have...