The Super Chief and Route 66

It had been a very long September, and we finally found ourselves heading east and back to Chicago in early October. The one week trip to C...

Hi Everyone, I'd like to thank you all for checking in. As previously stated in my last post I have moved most of my postings from th...

Train travel in the United States today is a far cry from what it once was. Only the long distance passenger trains have dining cars, and a...

Electric trains and Christmas Trees have been a normal pairing for over a hundred years now. So when sitting under my tree last night with m...

Well it looks like we are getting into that time of the holiday season when we have to waste a night at a desk or table scribbling out Chr...

For me there is no single holiday that is so quintessentially American and synonymous with travel as Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving or should I ...

A few weeks back I had the privilege of guest blogging for The Boron Sun. The piece I wrote was about the 1940 film  20 Mule Team , a forget...