Many rail fans know that the gauge of the track changes at the Russian border.  It widens from the international standard of 4 feet 8.5 inches to about 5 feet....

I don’t know how many photographs I’ve taken on my travels. Probably thousands. Maybe even hundreds of thousands! My strategy is pretty simple: if you take lots and lots of...

My 2011 trip to Russia and China included rail travel from London to Berlin to Moscow to St. Petersburg and back to Moscow. At that point, I joined a tour...

One of the interesting things about rail travel and railroading in general is that almost all the technology is many decades old. And, since I, too, am many decades old,...