Airline and rail fares, and how they’re calculated, have always been a mystery to me. Of course, I realize that it’s usually a case of supply-and-demand. When fares go up,...
I received an email the other day from someone asking for more information about Amtrak operations and, specifically, what goes into maintaining their schedule of long-distance trains. As you would...
A week or so ago, I posted an item about the proposal for Amtrak to increase service between San Antonio and Los Angeles. The current three-days-a-week schedule is now being...
Most of Amtrak’s long-distance trains run daily. Just two trains – the Cardinal (New York-Chicago) and the Sunset Limited (Los Angeles-New Orleans) run three days a week, although there has...