Amtrak has submitted a request to Congress for a supplementary appropriation of roughly $1.5 billion for the year 2021, bringing the 2-year total requested to $3.54 billion. This second request...

I had an interesting conversation the other day with someone who has been around the intelligentsia, the rich, and the powerful throughout his professional career. Furthermore, he’s familiar with and...

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The Sunset Limited, Amtrak’s Train #2, departed Los Angeles about 10 minutes late (At 10:10 P.M.) in a driving rain. Everything had gotten off to a very promising start when...

  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...

I’ve been trying for several days to bring some order to the mishmash of photos that are stored helter-skelter in my desktop. To my everlasting regret, most of the photos...

I’ll be attending the annual Fall meeting of the Rail Passengers Association next month. It will be held in Miami and to get there from the West Coast by train...

I’ve engaged in versions of this conversation dozens of times over the past 20-some years. This time it began when the restaurant manager, Alex, mentioned that he would be away...

For several decades, Amtrak’s iconic Sunset Limited crossed the entire continent on a glorious three-night odyssey between Los Angeles and Jacksonville, Florida. I did it once and it was a...

OK, so in order to show Congress how hard they’re trying to save money, Amtrak has taken the dining cars off the Lake Shore Limited and the Capitol Limited. Now,...