About ten years ago, I was heading West en route to Los Angeles aboard the Southwest Chief. We were stopped at a staton when I awoke on my first morning aboard and I raised up on an elbow and peered out the window of my roomette. We had just started moving and a few seconds…
I suppose so. The airlines and Amtrak and the hotels are all doing their best to squeeze every last dollar of revenue out of us, albeit for different reasons. As a result, it’s very time consuming at best, and impossible at worst, to figure out the best way to get where you’re going for the…
The news is coming in bits and pieces, and it’s too early to know for sure how significant it is, but [breaking into song] “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christ-mas … “ That’s from the perspective of a passenger rail advocate, of course. Seriously, there really does appear to be the beginning of…
I don’t know if there’s ever been an actual scientific survey, but I’m quite sure that most people riding across the country on an Amtrak train will say what they enjoy most is looking at the scenery. It’s certainly out there in abundance and that’s certainly how I feel. I’ll never get tired of the…