I’m off tomorrow morning on a trip that will include several lengthy train rides and a visit to Boston where I’ll see the Red Sox play four games, thereby indulging...
Here’s a sad statistic: Amtrak is allotted less than 1 percent of the total federal transportation budget. (As embarrassing as that is, it would be zero if Bush and McCain...
If I had to make a choice among Amtrak’s long-distance trains, it would be the Empire Builder, which operates daily between Chicago and either Seattle, Washington, or Portland, Oregon. I’ve...
Amtrak’s Empire Builder in the Cascade Mountains en route to Seattle. It has occurred to me – belatedly, I’m afraid – that if you’re interested enough to read some of...