So far, cruising the Mississippi River on the American Queen has been everything we had imagined. This is a big boat–and it is, we have been told, a boat and not a ship–and our first 24 hours on board has taken us from Memphis to Greenville, Mississippi, where we have stopped while a number of…
The news is coming in bits and pieces, and it’s too early to know for sure how significant it is, but [breaking into song] “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christ-mas … “ That’s from the perspective of a passenger rail advocate, of course. Seriously, there really does appear to be the beginning of…
It really does appear that California will get its high-speed train! The California Assembly – first the House and now the Senate – has given final approval to the project in final do-or-die, put-up-or-shut-up votes. Mostly, with only a couple of exceptions, the votes were along party lines: Democrats in favor, Republicans opposed. Hardly a…