Ah, summer, when railroad m/w people turn to the tasks they've been planning all through the winter. When the sun is in the sky and the warmth starts to erase the deep-down chills of the finally gone cold weather. This is the season when track crews are out in force, laying rail, putting in ...
Not long ago, I took my wife to the Crescent City on Amtrak's City of New Orleans. When we left Chicago, we sat in our roomette as the train wound its way through a maze of track, headed south, then west, then finally east over the St. Charles Air Line. My wife wondered why ...
