March - 2018

Passenger service ca. 1944 and Amtrak’s self-destructiveness

If my title seems like a hodgepodge, you’re absolutely right. After deciding to write about how Amtrak, given the chance to step up and...

Southwest Chief route wins federal grant

I’ve talked about the Southwest Chief in this blog before. One of the reasons is that the Chief is the only Amtrak service to and from...

Is America’s rail infrastructure really crumbling?

With five deadly Amtrak crashes in the past three months, the news media has been beating the drum for increased railroad safety and...

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ABOUT ME

I have written about railroads for 10+ years, and I am an avid train watcher and amateur railroad historian. I was born in Chicago in the late 40s and grew up a stone's throw from the main line of the old CB&Q, route of famous trains like the California Zephyr, Empire Builder, and North Coast Limited. I am also an author and have published a series of novels involving a train-watching detective.