First: My apologies for the lack of photos. I took a bunch — a few are decent! — but for some reason my laptop is running v-e-r-y slow and I have given up trying to upload any photos for this post.——————————————————————-Los Angeles Union Station is a great place to begin a rail journey. Built in…
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, it’s because there are more people wanting fewer available seats. We may not like it, but at least it makes sense. I’ve just begun making…
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 provided by the venerable Sunset Limited. The new arrangement would increase that service to a daily schedule. After a reader raised a question, I re-read…
Clearly, there is a great deal of interest in the proposal to increase service between San Antonio and the West Coast from three days a week to a daily train. For more details, here are the relevant details from a recent letter sent by NARP’s president, Ross Capon, to Amtrak’s board chair, Tom Carper. June…