The recent interesting piece titled “PSR: Can We Please Be Honest Here?” encapsulates perfectly what seems to be either the broad sentiment toward, or growing disillusionment, with the PSR operating strategy that now has been adopted by most railroads. But it does …
“The root of the freight-passenger mixing issue lies not in some nefarious desire on the part of the freight railroads to delay passenger trains or one on the part of Amtrak to inconvenience their hosts. Instead, the problem stems from …
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It’s been 50 years since Congress established the National Railroad Passenger Corporation to salvage the nation’s struggling passenger rail system. The new company, which became known as Amtrak—a blend of American and track—was a public-private partnership designed to ensure the U.S. had multiple …
The first Amtrak train was a Clocker that left New York City for Philadelphia shortly after midnight on May 1, 1971. Article Link
No one likes to rush a good view, so what better way to experience the world’s best scenery than from the seat of a train? Article Link
Thick black smoke billowed into the air Sunday after a train derailed in northwest Iowa, prompting authorities to evacuate part of a small, nearby town. Article Link
Passenger trains, however, take daydreaming to a stratospherically higher level. There’s such a hypnotic, zen-like quality to watching endless stretches of landscape slide by a big window. Even at night, watching lights in the distance move past is mesmerizing.
A Maryland resident would be able to ride MARC commuter trains to a job in Northern Virginia, and a Virginia resident could catch the Virginia Railway Express on the weekends, then travel to Baltimore in a one-fare, one-seat trip as …
