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...

Almost since the first railways were built in that country, the Russians have used a five-foot gauge … that is, five feet being the space between the two rails. Here...