First, a disclaimer: I can’t remember who sent me this list. I once had the information, but either deleted it carelessly or it’s misfiled somewhere in the bowels of my computer. If someone out there knows the original source, let me know and I’ll gladly give credit. However, to the best of my knowledge, the…
The Northeast Corridor – that’s the roughly 440 miles between Washington and Boston via New York City – is Amtrak‘s busiest route. Northbound trains out of New York travel along the Connecticut shore before swinging a bit more inland at New London for the run across Rhode Island and on into Boston. New London is…
Most people would probably guess the bullet train in Japan or the TGV in France. Nope, the fastest train in the world is in China. It runs from Shanghai’s International Airport into Pudong where passengers can transfer to a subway that will take them into the center of Shanghai. The Chinese train runs at a…