Uh-oh … comes today an email from Amtrak saying I must contact them about my forthcoming rail trip. I really hate it when this happens, because much of the time...

This Friday will mark the 4th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, certainly one of the more devastating storms every to strike the mainland United States. The story of the havoc Katrina...

Several posts back, I wrote about various proposals floating around out there that would, in effect, restore passenger train service between New Orleans and Florida. That segment, as most of...

Until Hurricane Katrina, Amtrak’s Sunset Limited offered one-train service clear across the continent, between Orlando, Florida, and Los Angeles. But service east of New Orleans had to be suspended because...