CHICAGO–The Lake Shore Limited starts out as two trains. One section leaves Boston about noon and heads across Massachusetts, passing through Springfield and Pittsfield, arriving at Albany, New York, about 5:30. The other, bigger section departs New York’s Penn Station at 3:40 in the afternoon, heads up the eastern bank of the Hudson River,…
NEW YORK CITY — I’m not sure how long a hike it was from our gate at JFK to Immigration and Customs, but it was a damn long way … and I was grateful for the three moving walkways that provided a bit of a respite along the route. (There was one not working, but…
That’s an old railroad adage that’s proven true over many years. It’s also what’s behind a plan that’s been put forward by the Midwest High-Speed RailAssociation. The person most responsible for this study and plan is Rick Harnish, executive director of the MHSRA and, not coincidentally, a member of the NARP* board of directors. Essentially,…
The severe storms that have been hammering the east coast over the past several days disrupted a lot of travel plans. Many of the people attending the NARP meetings in Washington had trouble getting there … and leaving, too. I was booked in first class on an Acela scheduled to leave Washington’s Union Station yesterday….