I’ve written here on quite a few occasions about conservative politicians who get their shorts all in a knot because Amtrak receives an annual subsidy from the federal government. My...
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...
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...
In a few days I’ll be off on another cross-country train trip. I really have two destinations: the first is Washington, DC, for one of our semi-annual NARP* meetings, and...