Some weeks back in this space I tried to make the point that the folks calling for the privatizing of the Northeast Corridor really don’t know what they’re talking about...
Once people form an opinion, it’s very hard to change their minds. And so it is with Amtrak and with train travel generally in this country. A lot of people...
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie—deliberate, contrived and dishonest—but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.” – John F. Kennedy Call it what you...
I really hate it when people casually throw ridership numbers around: this train is up 2 percent; that train is off a half percent. We all do it and, most...