It keeps on happening. People drive around the gates, past the flashing lights and clanging bells, and into the path of a locomotive.   The most recent incident was Friday...

It’s been around a while, but I just came across this recently. It’s a startling bit of video that graphically demonstrates what can happen when a tornado intersects with a...

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...