The Capitol Limited was a great train. It was the flagship train for the Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) during its initial 48-year incarnation and an Amtrak train for its second, and final,
Nobody seems to dispute that the subway system is an integral part of New York City, and that New York “wouldn’t be New York” without it. Yet there was a time before
The long-fought conflict between Amtrak on one side and CSX, Norfolk Southern and the Port of Mobile on the other has ended. The final move on Amtrak’s part was to move to
In a few short days, Amtrak’s Silver Star train between New York and Miami, will be no more. There will still be a train, which Amtrak will call the Floridian. It will
New mileage on tourist railroads, especially those that can be reached by non-motorists as well as motorists, are very rare, but one has been providing service since last year, and is completing
Within the month, Amtrak will consign the Capitol Limited and Silver Star trains to history, while cutting the latter train off at Washington, D.C. and leaving its riders north of there to
An online conference sponsored by the Rail Users’ Network (RUN) will feature efforts to bring new corridor-length passenger train routes to various parts of the nation through the FRA’s Corridor I.D. and
On July 30, Amtrak announced it was planning to tarnish the Silver Star, the train that has traveled between New York and Florida since 1939. It will throw its venerable silver piece
This past summer, we reported in depth about the “fiscal cliff” that now confronts essentially the entire transit industry in the United States, due to the one-shot nature of COVID-19 relief funds
Throughout the spring, we reported on the slow but steady progress of the proposal to charge tolls for most vehicles entering the Central Business District of Manhattan, defined as the part of