For Throwback Thursday we travel to 1971, when the TurboTrain visited Phoenix Union Station on a demonstration tour. I rode it up from Tucson with two buddies — but we almost didn't get on. Amtrak promised free tickets and drastically...

Early Amtrak "Merchants Limited" arriving at New Haven

View south at Rondout on 6-26-76 by LE_Irvin on Flickr. An Amtrak Turboliner at Rondout, Illinois just days before the Bicentennial. The Turboliners ran between Chicago and Milwaukee from 1975 to...