By J. Bruce Richardson, Corridor Rail Development Corporation; January 20, 2021 Part Two Amtrak is 50 years old this May.…
By J. Bruce Richardson, Corridor Rail Development Corporation; January 19, 2021 The Greatest Generation’s road warriors traveled in Pullman comfort…
By J. Bruce Richardson, Corridor Rail Development Corporation; January 18, 2021 Part One Amtrak is 50 years old this May.…
By J. Bruce Richardson, Corridor Rail Development Corporation; January 15, 2021 Railroads were the first in the transportation industry to…
By J. Bruce Richardson, Corridor Rail Development Corporation; January 14, 2021 Note: This article was originally written in 2010; updated…
By J. Bruce Richardson, Corridor Rail Development Corporation; January 13, 2021 Note: This was written in early 2019. “Kindly do…
By J. Bruce Richardson, Corridor Rail Development Corporation; January 12, 2021 Note: This narrative was first written in 2019. It’s…
By J. Bruce Richardson, Corridor Rail Development Corporation; January 11, 2021 The time span between the creation of Seaboard Coast…
By J. Bruce Richardson, Corridor Rail Development Corporation; January 8, 2021 James J. Hill was the Empire Builder by reputation…
By J. Bruce Richardson, Corridor Rail Development Corporation; January 7, 2021 In the 1940s, the dining car department of the…
By J. Bruce Richardson, Corridor Rail Development Corporation; January 5, 2021 The streamliner lounge car, once the haven of passengers…
By J. Bruce Richardson, Corridor Rail Development Corporation; January 4, 2021 In 1973, The Southern Crescent was still operating as…
By J. Bruce Richardson, Corridor Rail Development Corporation; December 31, 2020 As 2020 mercifully and thankfully comes to a close,…
By J. Bruce Richardson, Corridor Rail Development Corporation; December 30, 2020 It wasn’t just any train, it was The Super…
By J. Bruce Richardson, Corridor Rail Development Corporation; December 28, 2020 At the tender age of just over six months,…
By J. Bruce Richardson, Corridor Rail Development Corporation, December 24, 2020 It’s Christmas Eve. Passenger trains are running everywhere today,…
By J. Bruce Richardson, Corridor Rail Development Corporation; December 21, 2020 Realizing that Amtrak operations are just a few months…
By J. Bruce Richardson, Corridor Rail Development Corporation; December 18, 2020 Before today’s Coast Starlight, Amtrak’s glamour train from Los…
By J. Bruce Richardson, Corridor Rail Development Corporation; December 17, 2020 When the name Capitol Limited is mentioned, travelers of…
By J. Bruce Richardson, Corridor Rail Development Corporation; December 15, 2020 In April of 1961, the Santa Fe Railway was…
By Stewart Mader, For The Philadelphia Inquirer; December 14, 2020 President-elect Joe Biden has an answer for our most pressing…
By Emily Cole, News Tribune; December 11, 2020 The temporary Amtrak station in the parking lot of the Jefferson Landing…
By J. Bruce Richardson, Corridor Rail Development Corporation; December 11, 2020 Long ago but not far away, just before the…
By Wyatt Gordon, Virginia Mercury, Fauquier Times; December 9, 2020 When former Gov. Doug Wilder sold off the state’s interest…
From New Jersey Transit, Mass Transit Magazine; December 10, 2020 A total of $190 million has been committed for renovations…