All Aboard!

Should Amtrak be on DOGE’s chopping block? Here’s one way to do it.

There was a time in my youth when one of the more exciting adventures was waking up in the middle of the night, going to the Rock Island station with my folks and taking the train from Waterloo, Iowa to the Twin Cities, where my mother’s family lived. The anticipation of hearing a distant whistle, the smell of old woven pile fabric on passenger seats an…