Call it a dining car or a diner or, as in Europe, a restaurant car, but the one thing people remember most about a long-distance train ride is the experience of having a full-on meal in a rolling restaurant. And no wonder. There you are, enjoying a cheeseburger with bacon and a cold beer for…
SALT LAKE CITY — The annual Fall meeting of the National Association of Railroad Passengers has ended and Jim Mathews, our new president and CEO, has met the membership and has impressed one and all. As indeed he should. He’s personable, experienced, smart as a whip, and brimming with ideas. In his first six weeks,…
When pressed to pick Amtrak’s most scenic train, I’ll talk about the Cardinal and the Adirondack and the Empire Builder or the Coast Starlight. But I always end up picking the California Zephyr. Amtrak runs the Zephyr every day in both directions between Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area. Assuming the train is running…
OK … here are a few photos from the first part of this trip. The California Zephyr arriving in Sacramento. The first minor glitch was when sleeping car passengers were directed to wait where the front of the train would come to a stop. Ah, but it turned out that the two sleepers were all…