America Is Finally Falling in Love With Amtrak. The Tracks Can’t Keep Up

For Amtrak and rail advocates, the ridership boom is both a warning and an opportunity. Air travel continues to deteriorate, ...

53 Hours and No Wi-Fi: Why I Loved Amtrak’s Slow Train to San Francisco

Our travel columnist took the California Zephyr during the Thanksgiving rush. And would do it again, with ear plugs.
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Will the Nation’s First Possible Coast-to-Coast Railroad Benefit Agriculture?

The potential $85 million merger of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern joins 50,000 miles of railroad tracks and would create a company that for the first time in history would control coast-to coast ...