Ask almost anyone into transportation issues which City in the country is the most enlightened and progressive when it comes to transportation infrastructure and I’ll bet that 90 percent would say Portland, Oregon. When it comes to getting around a fairly large city without a car, Portland has it figured out. There’s a light rail…
Mike Rogers is the principal of an elementary school and, I’m quite certain, a fine, upstanding and highly intelligent human being. That must be true because he loves train travel … like me and like most of you. And, of course, we’re all fine, upstanding, intelligent and thoroughly exemplary people, are we not? But Mike…
I flew into Seattle last night — on Hawaiian Airlines, of course — had breakfast with an old friend this morning, then caught Amtrak train # 513 to Portland. Seattle and Portland are the main cities being served by Amtrak’s Cascades trains, but trains also run north to Vancouver, British Columbia, and as far south as…
I’ll be leaving tomorrow for the annual Fall meeting of NARP, the National Association of Railroad Passengers. This meeting will be in Milwaukee which, happily for me, is on the route of Amtrak’s Empire Builder. So I will leave here tomorrow afternoon on a flight to Seattle aboard Hawaiian Airlines. The next leg is one…