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Foreword ix
Prologue Baltimore On the Oldest Railroad in America xiii
Part 1 Through the Rockies and Sierras 1
California Zephyr Here Come Your Game Boys and Microwaves 3
Sacramento All You Got Now Is Amtrak 11
Train World Foamers and Trainsp otters 14
Real Railroad World The Birth of Amtrak 20
Part 2 Pacific Northwest 25
North Dakota Across on the Hi-Line 27
Essex, Montana At the Izaak"Walton Inn 34
The Cascades Locomotive Problems 39
Seattle The "N" word: Nationalization 44
Amtrak Cascades Its All about Frequency 47
Oregon Funding Rail with Vanity Plates 54
Empire Builder The Best Kept Secret in America 57
Part 3 The Midwest 61
Chicago A Third-World Train Set 63
Madison Everything Has Six Zeros in It 69
Part 4 The Middle Atlantic 75
Lakeshore Limited But I Don't Want a Burger 77
The Acela Express Aboard America's Fastest Train 80
Washington, D. C. Running Out of Capacity 85
Norfolk, Virginia Make Those People Go Away 92
Raleigh, North Carolina A State-Owned Railroad 98
The Carolinian National Train Day 103
Union Station, Washington, D. C. When Railroads Were Bad to the Bone 106
The Capitol Limited America Rides These Trains 113
Part 5 California 119
The Southwest Chief On the Trans con 121
Pacific Surfliner On Board the California Car 125
The Coast Starlight A California Train Inside and Out 132
Capitol Corridor Trains in the Streets of Oakland 135
Caltrans, Sacramento A Billion Dollars Ready to Go 142
High Speed Rail Authority, Sacramento Building Another Hoover Dam 145
California Railroad Museum, Sacramento Railroads Become Road Kill 149
Amtrak Western Division, Oakland Freight that Talks 152
California ZephyrA Stunning Long Way to Go 156
Colorado River Yak-Yak on the Radio 159
Denver Waiting for Those Freighters 162
Part 6 Texas 167
The Texas Eagle Diner Lite 169
Longview,Texas Don't You Get it? We Don't Care 174
Houston A Pitiful Harvest by Bus 179
Dallas A Texas T-Bone Bullet Train 182
BNSF Headquarters, Fort Worth We Care. We. Really Do 189
Texas Eagle No Mac and Cheese 194
Part 7 The Northeast 201
The Hiawatha Deadly Days 203
The Capitol Limited A Complete Washout 207
Union Station, Washington, D. C. The Big Lie of Profitability 211
Amtrak Headquarters Broken Governance and the Amtrak Haters 216
Philadelphia Trains with People in Them 220
Boston I Was Your Governor 222
Cambridge Mega-Regions: 100 Million More People 226
The Downeaster Maine's Very Own Train 229
Lake Shore Limited Can I Sit Somewhere Else? 233
Part 8 The Gulf Coast 239
City of New Orleans On the Main Line of Mid-America 241
Meridian, Mississippi Interstate II in FifteenYears' 244
New Orleans Rail:The Red-Headed Stepchild 250
CSX Headquarters, Jacksonville Where's the Vision, Where's the Money? 253
Tallahassee Left without a Cadillac 257
Silver Meteor A Bed and 600 Miles 260
Virginia Beach Railpax: Set Up to Fail 262
Washington, D. C. The Freight-Railroad Boys 267
Epilogue Pittsburgh On Train Time Again 271
Index 279
About the Author 287
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Mike Bingham
reviewed Waiting on a Train: The Embattled Future of Passenger Rail Service--A Year Spent Riding across America on April 26, 2014
Waiting on a Train
Fittingly, I read this book on a long train journey westward, across the US and then Eastward across Canada. The author tells of his experiences on Amtrak trains as well as filling us in on the history and current challenges the railroad faces. Many executive types involved in railroading are interviewed. It gets a little tedious because they all tell a similar story. Passenger rail in America is a neglected form of mass transit. We are farther away than ever from European and Japanese speedy "bullet" trains. I would have enjoyed the book more if the author had given the reader a closeri look at the folks who are riding Amtrak; their reasons for choosing it and their reactions to the service. Incidentally,I like to travel rail,but I'm not a "foamer"; a term coined to denote those overly zealous railroad fans. The last part of my recent odyssey was traveled on Via Rail Canada with a sleeper across Canada and elegant meals served in style in the dining car. The Canadians have forever spoiled me....
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