Before the establishment of Amtrak in 1971, no passenger rail service ran the entire length of the West Coast, meaning that travelers had to either drive along the coast or take a flight to their ...

Since the rise of commercial air travel, getting from one place to another has been about speed. Train travel, on the other hand, celebrates the opposite — a slower, more scenic, and far more ...

We were nearly 300 miles into our 1,400-mile trip on Amtrak's Coast Starlight when it dawned on me to check on the kids. I veered down the aisles of two passenger cars to the observation car, where my ...