I’ve just made the last couple of reservations for my trip to Washington, DC, at the end of this month for the annual Spring meeting of the Rail Passengers Association. It’s a three-day affair, with the second day spent trudging from one congressional office to another, pleading the case for passenger rail. After a dozen…
Members of the National Association of Railroad Passengers will be gathering later this month for our annual Spring meeting in Washington, DC. There will be a board meeting, meetings of the 110-person NARP Council of Representatives also attended by rank-and-file NARP members, discussion groups, guest speakers and, every other year, the election of officers and…
The severe storms that have been hammering the east coast over the past several days disrupted a lot of travel plans. Many of the people attending the NARP meetings in Washington had trouble getting there … and leaving, too. I was booked in first class on an Acela scheduled to leave Washington’s Union Station yesterday….
Yesterday I commented on how no one seems to care about the hardships being forced on passengers aboard Amtrak’s Empire Builder – great long delays caused by a huge increase in freight traffic involving 100-car trains carrying North Dakota crude oil to refineries in various parts of the country. OK, so how are things going…