I’ve written here a couple of times about efforts to restore the New Orleans-Orlando portion of the Sunset Limited’s route. Large sections of track in Mississippi and the Florida panhandle...

Amtrak’s train # 25, the westbound Pioneer, left Chicago as part of the California Zephyr consist, splitting off at Denver and heading up into Wyoming and Utah. From Ogden, the...

The new Amtrak authorization bill, passed by Congress and – whaddaya know! – signed by President Bush*, has started folks talking about restoring some old Amtrak routes. Three are actually...

Amtrak was created back in the early 70s because railroads operating at the time desperately wanted to get out of the passenger business. Why? Because the money was in freight...