Dear Mr. Anderson … Out here—which I guess means anywhere in the country except Washington, DC, and maybe New York City—there is real concern that your long-term plan is to pull the plug on the long-distance trains. We certainly hope that’s not true and I’d like to give you a couple of specific reasons…
TRAINS magazine reports Amtrak’s Board of Directors will demand full implementation of Positive Train Control (PTC) on any route over which an Amtrak train operates by the end of the calendar year or it will cancel those trains. If the board does indeed adopt this position, as a practical matter it would mean at…
I assume that most of you are up to date on Amtrak’s threat to discontinue the Southwest Chief or, at the very least, seriously modify it’s schedule and quality of service. You can go here for a recap of the story if you need to. Meanwhile, in a distressing new development, we find that…
As far as I know, there is no hard evidence—no professionally done survey, for instance—to support a gut feeling that on the subject of long-distance trains, a significant slice of public opinion has moved from unaware to interested to concerned. Can it be that people are finally beginning to get the message that the future…