Q: We live close to Sacramnto and I’ve promised to take my family on a cross country train ride. Which ones do you recommend? And would it b a good...

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  The Rail Passengers Association will be meeting later this month in Miami and I’m looking forward to it as much and maybe even more than the many I’ve attended...

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...

The Amtrak brain trust seems to be so spectacularly wrong so much of the time, we find ourselves asking again and again, “What the hell are they thinking?”   Yesterday...

Q: Jim, I’m going to be traveling overnight on the Silver Meteor from Philadelphia to Miami next month. It’s my first overnight ride in an Amtrak sleeping car. What in...

A question came in by email the other day from a lady expressing irritation that Amtrak fares seem to change for no apparent reason. Welcome to the club, ma’am.  ...

I’ve written about grade crossing accidents here several times. I’ll probably do it again. The thing is, it’s a very frustrating problem because every one is avoidable. It doesn’t matter...

When the national news media writes about Amtrak, it’s almost always about the Northeast Corridor and usually about late trains or service disruptions because of bad weather. Trains running on...

A prototype of the new Viewliner dining car has been around for some time, giving Amtrak crews chance to test them and make recommendations for changes and improvements. Of course,...