Tips for family train travel, VP Biden and a snowy perspective

ABC News reports good tips for taking the train with children, which is becoming an increasingly attractive mode with additional safety measures on airlines.

VP Biden has written an impassioned opinion piece stating, "Amtrak doesn't just carry us from one place to another--it makes things possible that otherwise wouldn't be."

While snow is falling through out the Midwest today, take a look at winter from the perspective of Amtrak's California Zephyr: