It’s awfully easy to grumble when services we take for granted are interrupted. For instance, once in a while – and I have no idea why – there is no...

After much prodding of state, local and federal governments – and Amtrak, too – rail service between Boston and Portland, Maine, was begun in 2001. Since then, ridership on the...

Two new grade crossing accidents to report today … both unfortunate and both all-too-typical. In Pinole, California (near Martinez in the Bay Area), a man and his dog were killed...

This one has happened just outside of Charlotte, North Carolina, where an Amtrak train hit a truck carrying some new cars. News reports don’t say which train it was, but...