When talking about the resurgence of interest in train travel, the tendency is to quote big numbers … noting, for example, that Amtrak ridership over the past three or four...
Amtrak’s train # 3, the Southwest Chief, leaves Chicago’s Union Station daily in the mid-afternoon on its two-night journey to Los Angeles. These photos were taken during my early-October trip...
CHICAGO — It’s 7:35 a.m. and Amtrak train # 381 is leaving Union Station spot on time, clattering through a maze of switches out through the yards and onto the...
Traffic congestion has become unbearable in most American cities. Four-dollar-a-gallon gas is a fact of life that’s here to stay. The airlines are in chaos and desperately cutting back flights....