October - 2018

Taking Amtrak apart

Amtrak's recent announcement that it would auction or otherwise sell off 48 pieces of equipment, including vintage passenger cars and...

More after Amtrak; the long-distance cruise

When the ocean marine transportation business could no longer make money on travel between city pairs, say, London to New York, for...

Serving desperate city pairs after Amtrak

Last time, I was talking about how an example Amtrak long-distance route, the Southwest Chief, could be segmented into day trains to...

What else, indeed?

Let's say we take my advice from the previous blog and dump Amtrak altogether. What can replace it? I guess I'm not worried about the...

To dump or not to dump

Every day it seems more and more like the Amtrak board of directors and upper management simply do not want to run long-distance...

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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.