It’s hard for Americans to imagine the scope of the high-speed rail system now being constructed in China. In the summer of 2011, I took one of their high-speed trains...
In the summer of 2011, I spent just over a month on an extended rail journey that included London, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Moscow, several cities in Siberia and Mongolia, Beijing...
Transportation experts are talking about a significant trend happening little by little around the country: the airlines are cutting back or eliminating short-haul flights … that is, flights of 400...
Rookie train travelers always have the same reaction when they first board an Amtrak sleeping car and poke their heads into a roomette: “We’re going to spend two days and...