Lamy Archives - TRAINS & TRAVEL WITH JIM LOOMIS

Dodge City to Los Angeles.

ByJim Loomis 06/04/201706/05/2017

At 5:00 a.m., as promised, Kurt, my host at the Boot Hill B&B, was waiting for me at the bottom of the stairs ready to drive me to the Dodge City station. The Chief was running nine minutes early, so there was time to say hello and express thanks to the volunteer manning the station….

Amtrak

Following Amtrak in the News Is a Bumpy Ride.

ByJim Loomis 12/16/2014

The chairman of Amtrak’s board of directors, Anthony Coscia, appeared before a congressional committee earlier this month and said what needs to be said, often and loud: passenger rail needs a constant and predictable source of funding—in other words, a trust fund. Almost every year, for some 40 years, Amtrak has had to go before…