Well, this is interesting: The Federal Railroad Administration has published the ground rules for anyone who wants to submit a bid for operating passenger trains on as many as three existing Amtrak long-distance routes. These rules will become final on September 5th and potential operators will have 180 days from that date to submit their…
The following comment came in this morning from a regular reader and it offers a very interesting, but entirely different perspective on the problems of the Hoosier State. * * * I took the Hoosier State last summer on a trip to Indianapolis. On the same trip I took the Illinois Zephyr, a…
The Hoosier State is an all-coach train that runs four days a week between Chicago and Indianapolis. On the other three days, those cities are served by The Cardinal, which continues beyond Indianapolis to Charlottesville, Washington and New York City. About a year and a half ago, with both the blessings and some subsidy…
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. …