Three of these four photos were taken on train rides in Canada and please believe me when I say that you can come away from the Toronto-to-Vancouver ride aboard VIA...

I wasn’t able to sleep the other night so I started looking through photos I’ve taken on train rides over the years. More specifically, because I thought it would be...

Amtrak has just announced the sale of some “Surplus Rolling Stock”, most of which has been assembled at Amtrak’s huge repair and maintenance facility in Beech Grove, Indiana. There are...

I’ve been trying for several days to bring some order to the mishmash of photos that are stored helter-skelter in my desktop. To my everlasting regret, most of the photos...

Churchill is a town of about 900 full-time residents located in northern Manitoba on the shores of Hudson Bay. How far north, you ask? Roughly 1100 miles north of Winnipeg...

I had an inquiry recently about the types of sleeping cars used by VIA Rail Canada on their the long-distance trains. There isn’t a short answer because VIA has two...

It’s a simple truth: cost-cutting won’t take you to prosperity; it just buys more time.   That’s certainly true when it comes to passenger rail. Politicians in the U.S. have...