The following is from a friend who just finished an overnight ride on the Texas Eagle with his eight-year-old daughter. He is not a happy camper. * * * Talked to some of the crew lounging in the “cafe car”. The consist is a locomotive, one Superliner sleeper, one cafe car, and four coaches. …
Back 50 or more years ago, the private railroads in this country hauled both freight and passengers. Regulating the passenger operations was the Interstate Commerce Commission. That meant the railroads had to get permission from the ICC before they could make changes of any consequence in schedules and or in fares. Even when passenger…
I typically make my travel plans well in advance. In fact, I’m already thinking about what trains I’d like to take when I travel to NARP’s annual meeting in Washington, DC, next April. As usual, I’ll start by flying to the West Coast and taking one of Amtrak’s long-distance trains from there. If I…
Yesterday an email popped up from a couple planning a cross-country train ride. They want to know which of the western trains out of Chicago I would recommend. I had to laugh because I go through that same quandary myself once or twice every year. I’ve done it every possible way, too—the Texas Eagle,…