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RFK’s Funeral Train – Photos by Paul Fusco (via The Atlantic)
This is the first piece of content on this site that I didn’t really create. It’s more of a “blog post” than the other, mini-features I have created about places…
Waterfalls and Puffins in West Iceland
Iceland is another country that does not have trains. Wikipedia says there was a narrow-gauge railway in the early 20th Century used in the construction of Reykjavik’s harbor and that…
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
The Trinidad Government Railway ran from 1876 until its closure in 1968. Like many railways around the world, it was shut down because of competition from cars. Today its old…
Down South on Amtrak’s Palmetto Service
We rode Amtrak’s Palmetto in October 2015 in a two-day stretch. On Sunday we got on at Savannah, Georgia, where the Palmetto originates daily around 0820, and rode to North…
Exploring Glasgow
We visited Glasgow in 2010, but the purpose of that visit was to ride the West Highland Line, so we did not get to see much of the city. We…
An Excursion on the Reading Blue Mountain & Northern’s RDC Cars
I did not own a car until I was 35 years old (in 2016). And when I got one, I used it to explore parts of my region that I…
Autumn in New England on Amtrak
In October 2014 we took a trip to Boston and Portland, Maine, on Amtrak. This was only my second time to Boston, and it was my first time riding all…
Abraham Lincoln, Pizza, and Other Hidden Gems on the Streets of Manchester
I had been to Manchester when I was about 20, but I didn’t remember much about it. All I can say is that the area has definitely changed, and a…
The West Highland Line: Lochs, Moors, and Scotland’s West Coast
Scotland’s West Highland Line is one of the most scenic rail journeys in the world, and I think it must be the best one-day scenic rail journey, period. …
