Amtrak has announced the return of sleeping car service out of Boston on the Lake Shore Limited, which runs daily between Chicago and either Boston or New York. Westbound trains depart from Boston’s South Station and Penn Station in New York City, connecting at Albany around dinner time for the overnight run to Chicago. The…
In a post the other day, I mentioned that South Africa’s Blue Train is on my list of must-do train rides. Inexplicably, I failed to mention the Simplon Orient Express, also near the top of that list, and which features wonderfully restored sleeping cars from the 1920s and 1930s. What a way to travel across…
I have a list of long-distance trains that I want to ride. I expect that I’ll get the chance to try some of them but, unfortunately, several of the best, and the best-known, are very, very pricey. At the top of that list is the famous Trans-Siberian Express, operating between Moscow and Vladivostok. Actually, there…