The Broadway Limited‘s dining car may have been well managed, but the rest of the railroad was not. Part of the problem was the NYC and PRR cultures were completely different. Part of the problem was the decline of the … Continue reading
On February 1, 1968, the New York Central and Pennsylvania railroads merged into the Penn Central. Neither of the predecessor railroads had been profitable, but they hoped the merged railroad could be made profitable by eliminating duplicate services. Today, many … Continue reading
The next major event on the road to Amtrak took place in 1967 when attorney Anthony Haswell formed the National Association of Railroad Passengers. Born in Dayton, Ohio and educated at the University of Wisconsin and University of Michigan, Haswell … Continue reading
In the early 1960s, Americans were running scared that other countries were getting ahead of them in various technologies. Russia beat the United States to outer space with Sputnik in 1957. Kennedy won the White House by claiming that there … Continue reading
