Needed: Pied Piper for Amtrak

My wife and I had traveled out to the Seattle area, on Amtrak, to spend a few days babysitting our grandkids while our daughter and son-in-law made a brief pre-Christmas trip. We opted to take Amtrak because of the various weather threats, and we’re not big fans of crossing mountains with snow-packed roads. Turned out to be the right decision as both the Cascades and Rockies were hammered with snow both going and coming to and from the west coast.

We’ve traveled Amtrak many times, first when we lived in North Dakota and would travel to see our family in Washington, and later from Montana - fro...