A few years ago, I was in the railroad station in the Italian town of Lucca, waiting for a train to Florence. An Italian gentleman sitting on a bench near...

I’ve seen some Facebook chatter lately that’s made me think—right or wrong—that a lot of people are taking long-distance train rides for the first time. Maybe it’s because they’ve heard...

Amtrak has had a lot of problems over the past couple of years with missed connections, or “misconnects” and they’re called within the company. The problems were especially bad back...

Brief recap: Because of a demonstration at the entrance to the Chunnel in France last month, Eurostar trains stopped running for several hours and, as a result, I was a...