I’m in the final stages of planning what can legitimately be called a once-in-a-lifetime trip, built around a private train from Moscow, through Mongolia, to Beijing. I’ll spend a few...

A few years back, a trip from Paris to London on the Eurostar was all but spoiled by a 40ish Brit yammering away about some business deal for the better...

What are the odds?? This past Friday, Amtrak train number 535, running from Sacramento to San Jose, hit and killed two people … in separate accidents! The train — like...