There’s some interesting news about passenger service between Chicago and Indianapolis. But first a bit of background. Those two cities are actually connected by two trains. The first is the Cardinal, an Amtrak train that operates three days a week in each direction between Chicago and New York,and passes through the Indiana capital. …
Airline pilots are only permitted to be work for a specific number of hours. In most instances, a two-person crew can only be on duty for no more than ten hours in a 24-hour period. It’s the same for a railroad engineer—in fact, for the entire operating crew, which includes the engineer, the assistant…
Three days a week, passengers traveling by train between Chicago and Indianapolis can take The Cardinal, an Amtrak long-distance train that runs on a southerly route overnight through Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia and Virginia to Washington, D,.C.; then on up the East Coast to New York City. For as long as I can…
A few years back, the U.S. Congress passed a law that said individual states had to step up and provide the money to keep Amtrak trains running on routes under 750 miles … routes in or passing through their states. It was another slippery and craven act by that slippery and craven bunch. …