SANTA FE–There are some very rough stretches of track on the Southwest Chief’s route. They are, of course, the reason that several hundred miles of track in Kansas, Colorado and...
INDIANAPOLIS–The Cardinal, Amtrak’s train #50, left Chicago on time late Thursday afternoon and, despite running for what seemed like 20-30 minutes at slow speeds leaving Chicago, arrived here 16 minutes...
CHICAGO–It’s distressing when a problem is identified and an appropriate solution is apparent but, for one reason or another, the solution never gets implemented … so the problem doesn’t go...
This past Saturday afternoon, as the Coast Starlight was passing through a particularly beautiful area of the Cascade Range south of Eugene, Oregon, a woman in her 60s came into...