When my daughter was a sophomore in college, she had the unique opportunity to spend a semester attending classes in France and living with a French family. There was a...

My approach to things that seem unattainable at first blush is simply to ask—the theory being, the worst possible result is that they will say, “No.” And so, on a...

Planning a trip is half the fun for me and I have already started thinking about attending my NARP meeting in Washington next April. There will be a board meeting,...

VIA Rail Canada runs a train some 1100 miles due north from Winnipeg to the town of Churchill, on the shores of Hudson Bay. As the weather turns cold—along about...

I’m still not up to par—hack! cough!—and will, therefore, take the easy way out with today’s post by offering a few photos taken on my 2011 train trip from Moscow...

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...

It must have been the lack of motion that woke me up. I didn’t know why were were stopped—there was no other train traffic—and then I heard someone passing by...

It was raining here the other day—steadily throughout the day— and I took the opportunity to rummage through some of the photos I’ve taken on past trips. Without doubt, my...

A Canadian government report has just surfaced and it calls for an end to the subsidy of VIA Rail’s Train #1. That is, of course, The Canadian, the iconic train...

We are not alone. Came an email the other day from one of our readers in Australia with the unhappy news that there is going to be a cut-back of...