I’m often asked which is my favorite destination or which trip do I remember most or some version of that. Because I travel almost exclusively by train, my answer is...

NEWS ITEM: “Trump Budget Zeros Out Amtrak Support.”   Uh-oh . . . if we’re looking for an example of how the loss of passenger train service can impact a...

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...

Six years ago, I took VIA Rail’s wonderful trans-continental train, The Canadian, and got off in Winnipeg. Two days later—it was about the third week of October—I boarded Train 693,...

You know by now that I’m a big fan of VIA Rail in Canada. I’ve racked up a lot of miles with them and every trip has been worth taking....

I was exchanging emails the other day with a friend and the subject was unforgettable travel experiences. Whether we travel a lot and visit exotic destinations, or less often and...

This morning I drove out to the Churchill Northern Studies Center, some 20 kilometers out of town, where I had an appointment to meet with Michael Goodyear, executive director of...

The big attraction Churchill holds for visitors, of course, is the polar bears. For a couple of months, beginning sometime in October, the town is full of people from all...

To use an apt Hawaiian-pidgin expression, it’s freeze-ass cold in Churchill on my second day, with temperatures in the 20s and a vicious wind blowing in off of Hudson Bay....

Was the visit to Churchill, Manitoba, worth a full week, including a total of four nights on the train, and a pretty fair chunk of change? Absolutely! It was an...