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It’s True: French Toast Is Back!

ByJim Loomis 04/25/2016

Well! The NARP scuttlebutt network has produced all kinds of good new with regard to Amtrak’s food service. At the top of that list is the fact that—and this has been confirmed from several sources—the Traditional Railroad French Toast is back on Amtrak’s dining car menus. While my favorite en route breakfast has not yet…

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A Big Plus and an Ominous Sign.

ByJim Loomis 11/07/2015

A week ago, a lot of people in Canada thought that they were literally within months of losing passenger rail in their country. The conservative government of Stephen Harper had given every indication they were perfectly willing to see VIA Rail simply disappear. There had been talk of cutbacks in schedules, in routes and in…