The Amtrak brain trust seems to be so spectacularly wrong so much of the time, we find ourselves asking again and again, “What the hell are they thinking?”   Yesterday...

I’ve written before about meeting people and making friends in Amtrak dining cars. It’s one of the great pleasures of long-distance train travel.   It was particularly interesting to learn,...

1. Amtrak’s Most Scenic Trains are the California Zephyr, (daily, Chicago-Bay Area), the Empire Builder (daily, Chicago-Seattle/Portland), the Coast Starlight (daily, Los Angeles-Seattle), the Cardinal (three times weekly, Chicago-Washington-New York)....

I’ve been involved with the National Association of Railroad Passengers for a dozen or more years now. NARP has two primary missions: first, to promote more and better and faster...

I continue to say that one of the main reasons why I enjoy train travel so much is because of the interesting people I meet in Amtrak dining cars.  ...

The following comment came in this morning from a regular reader and it offers a very interesting, but entirely different perspective on the problems of the Hoosier State. *  ...

Five of Amtrak’s long-distance trains feature Viewliner sleeping cars: the Silver Meteor, the Silver Star, the Crescent, the Cardinal and the Lake Shore Limited. Those trains travel over routes with...

I occasionally indulge in some daydreaming . . . often that involves thinking about some of the train rides I took many decades ago. I remember—I was probably nine or...

I’m going to be attending NARP’s annual April meeting in Washington, DC, and, as usual, I’ll be flying to the West Coast and taking the train from there.   Hawaiian...

If you want to take your interest in trains to a whole new level, there’s always “private varnish.” That’s the inside term for privately-owned railroad cars and referring to the...