I submitted a request to ride in an Amtrak locomotive, but that is such a rarely-approved privilege I had little hope it would ever actually happen. Imagine my delight when I was told arrangements had been made for me to ride in the “head end” of Amtrak’s daily Empire Builder during a Chicago-to-Seattle trip.
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The Cardinal is not a big train – just one sleeping car, three coaches, and a diner – and it runs only three days a week over a meandering southerly route between New York and Chicago. But, in between those frenetic metropolitan centers, the Cardinal passes through some of the loveliest rural and wilderness areas in the entire eastern United States.
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Ned Levi looks at the problems of railway travel security compared to air travel security, and explains the difficulties of rail security, in part due to the number of people traveling in the US by rail daily, and its accessibility.
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The summer travel season is right around the corner and with the price of gasoline climbing to unprecedented rates, many travelers are turning to travel by train across the U.S. as an affordable, relaxing alternative to travel by car or plane.
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CO lost man’s body in casket shipped from Mexico to Texas, Amtrak turns 40 and plans museum train, animal fat as biofuel? Does that qualify?
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Ned Levi reports first hand about the security breach which occurred Sunday at Amtrak’s Philadelphia 30th Street Station. No gate agent or security were assigned to the 5:15am Regional train to New York.
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Ned discusses his experience having boarded the wrong train at Amtrak’s New York Penn Station due to Amtrak’s poor directions and lack of track signage showing which train is on each track at the station. Ned suggests Amtrak use Philadelphia’s regional rail authority, SEPTA, example, of how to provide essential signage for passengers.
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For years, many travelers wouldn’t consider an electronic ticket if there was a paper alternative, now, they are so reliant on ticketless travel that they make a lot of mistakes. The same with maps and GPSs.
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This weekend, we serve up three videos ranging from a humorous look at how the Boston Globe is planning to cope with the changing landscape of print media to an unusual look at a groundbreaking work of art in San Francisco and then to Peter Greenberg telling us about filthy hotels. Enjoy.
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