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...

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. *  ...

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...

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...

This is about two railroads: Amtrak and Iowa Pacific Holdings—which doesn’t sound much like a railroad at all, does it? Mostly, IPH runs excursion trains which you can check out...

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...

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,...

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...

It’s got to be frustrating. After months of haggling, the Indiana Department of Transportation was finally on the verge of an agreement with Iowa Pacific Holdings and Amtrak to continue...