I took a 19-hour overnight Amtrak train. Here are 10 reasons traveling by train is better than flying. - Yahoo
Although I ultimately didn't think the journey was worth the $550 price tag, I did notice there were many benefits to train travel, especially when compared to flying.
There were no...
The Napa Valley Wine Train is a privately operated excursion train that runs between Napa and St. Helena, California. The route passes by many the region's vineyards and wineries located in Napa County.
The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak, is a passenger railroad service that provides medium- and long-distance intercity service in the contiguous United States and to nine Canadian cities.
The Santa Fe Depot in San Diego, California, is a union station built by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway to replace the small Victorian-style structure erected in 1887. The Spanish Colonial Revival style station is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
An exhilarating train journey across the Sahara - BBC
Since 1963, Mauritania’s 2km-long Train du Desert has carried iron ore and brave passengers 704km across the Sahara Desert.
Wrapping my Touareg scarf around my face to shield my eyes from the sand and dirt, I climbed the ladder, hoisted...
The station was designed by architect Rob Wellington Quigley, and was built in 1994 to replace the aging depot in Del Mar, California two miles south which had been in use since the early 1900s. Quigley drew inspiration for the design from a group of Quonset huts that used to line North Cedros Ave.
The Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center (ARTIC) is an intermodal transit center in Anaheim, California. The station opened in 2014 and replaced a nearby depot and train platforms used by Amtrak and Metrolink. The steel-framed building’s entrance is a 120-foot-tall glass wall. The...
Is Amtrak becoming like the airlines? - USA Today
For years I’ve been traveling to the nation’s capital to represent airline passengers before Congress, the Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration. And I often get there by train. That’s not a punchline or a cheap...
Train lovers forge lifelong friendships through rail travel - ABC News
They're aboard because they love trains: The pilot from New Orleans, the computer consultant from New Jersey, the retired tax lawyer from Florida, the computer accounting consultant from Queens and his mother, the retired...
Taking the Amtrak train avoids traffic and can be a relaxing way to travel.
We use this method to travel to Anaheim Duck's hockey games and love it. One of the problems is the train's on time schedule.
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