I hate buses. Even more, I hate it when a train ride I’d been looking forward to suddenly becomes a long bus ride because of a mudslide or a freight train derailment or work on the tracks. The longest unexpected bus ride I’ve ever experienced occurred on a trip when my plan was to take…
OK, this could be a scoop … a bit of inside info … a possible sneak peak at some of Amtrak’s future plans that are yet to be announced. Here’s what happened: This past April, I attended the annual meeting of the National Association of Railroad Passengers (NARP) in Washington, DC. To get there,…
There are some unfathomable things about Amtrak and the way it operates—or doesn’t— that drives many of us crazy. Like the apparent lack of enthusiasm for restoring the Sunset Limited’s route between New Orleans and Orlando. That’s been a sore subject ever since Hurricane Katrina struck almost a decade ago. A lot of the…
Uh-oh … comes today an email from Amtrak saying I must contact them about my forthcoming rail trip. I really hate it when this happens, because much of the time it means there’s a “service interruption” … and that almost always means there’s bus ride in your future. There was, for example, the time…