wifi Archives - TRAINS & TRAVEL WITH JIM LOOMIS

Incremental Progress Comes to Amtrak.

ByJim Loomis 10/31/201711/01/2017

As I write this, the Southwest Chief is sitting in the Albuquerque station, the locomotives refueled, the windows washed. Earlier today, somewhere near Gallup, I went on line with my laptop and checked my emails at Maui.net. I was stunned. There is WiFi on this train! I’m still stunned. I gather it comes and…

A Little of This; a Little of That.

ByJim Loomis 04/03/201612/05/2016

Good Luck with This. One of the transportation goals being advocated by the National Association of Railroad Passengers NARP) is “connectivity”, meaning that we should be able to transfer smoothly from one means of transport to another … that is, from a long-distance train to a commuter line or a bus or an urban transit…