This, he says, is a problem because it discourages people from riding Amtrak, and if they did so, they would use less energy than if they drove.

About 18,000 people buy monthly passes to ride Amtrak in the corridor between Washington and Boston.

My experiences riding Amtrak have been much more soothing than flying.

Last Sept. 13, I rode Amtrak from Boston to Portland, Ore., on time, with an overflow load of very grateful air-travel refugees.

She no longer lets him fly; when the two traveled from Baltimore to Miami for this year's Super Bowl, they rode Amtrak for 28 hours.

Oh, please-you really wanna spend two days riding Amtrak?

Then, without a test run, he rode Amtrak to Cumberland, expecting to storm the towpath in six days.

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This week, he took a train home to Iowa from Chicago, the first time he has ridden Amtrak in a decade.

Or you do ride Amtrak--just not the Amtrak I'm always on.