Back in 1970, the freight railroads made a deal: the federal government would let them get out of the passenger business, if they would contribute money and equipment...
I have a hard time figuring out the people in Congress who have it in for Amtrak. What is it that drives them? Ideology? Spite? Ignorance? Stupidity? Maybe even all...
(The following is Part 2 of an account of one of my several trips on the Cardinal. It was originally published in the Columbus Dispatch.) At dinner, I’m seated with...
Have you seen the oil trains? There are lots of them. Three locomotives hauling one hundred or more hulking, black tank cars filled with crude oil. They’re coming from Canada...