When I was a youngster back in the late 40’s and early 50’s, our family would take an annual train trip from our home in Connecticut to either St. Louis...
Eating in a rolling restaurant is what passengers remember most about their long-distance train trips. During the Golden Age of train travel from the mid-1930s to mid-1950s, competing railroads would...
SEATTLE – My brother-in-law, Peter, and I have almost completed our trans-continental rail journey, the last segment being our ride to Los Angeles today aboard Amtrak’s Coast Starlight. We arrived...
The first leg of this extended trip is over … and was pretty much everything I had hoped. I met my daughter, Kris, and granddaughter, Olivia, in Los Angeles and...