Let’s start with a simple, indisputable truth: all public transportation is subsidized. That’s true from airlines to bikeways, and everything in between.  Amtrak’s troubles began at the time of its...

The Belmond British Pullman company has restored and refurbished an entire train that now carries lucky people on a variety of rail excursions. The thing is, Belmond transports you back...

Slowly and painfully, the Golden Age of train travel came to a sorrowful end in the late 1960s. Rail passenger service was driven out of profitability by air travel and...

My part in my latest book project is just about done. The manuscript is 99-percent finished and all that remains will be a final read-through looking for anything that needs...

It’s hard to know how thin the ice is under Amtrak’s president and CEO, Richard Anderson.   Maybe I missed it, but no one on the Amtrak board of directors...

 When I was maybe eight or nine, my dad took me on a plane ride just for fun. It was American Airlines and I think it was a DC-3 because...

President Trump has nominated Lynn Westmoreland, a former Republican congressman from Georgia, to fill a vacancy on the Amtrak Board of Directors. (Amtrak board members are nominated by the president...

Just a few minutes ago, I had a great idea for the next post. I sat down at my little desk, turned on the Mac and . . . and...

Here are a few random observations while on train #5 from Glenwood Springs to Davis and from Davis to Los Angeles on the Coast Starlight.   Great quote from a...

A chill ran up my spine when this email from Amtrak was forwarded to me:   “We are contacting you today to inform you that starting January 6 through March...