I usually take a one-hour flight to visit family, but this time I took the 12-hour train ride. I worried I was wasting time even though I was saving money, but I don't regret my choice. The train ride ...

Here's why travel expert Rick Steves always recommends train travel as the best way for budget-conscious travelers and ...

I traveled to Switzerland, Germany, Austria, and Italy on Europe's extensive high-speed railway. I brought along a 40-pound suitcase, which turned out to be a big mistake. My trip was marred with ...

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What it’s really like to travel cross-country by rail. Mi wrote and illustrated this comic after spending three and a half days aboard two Amtrak trains. This summer, I was determined to take a train ...

It was early morning in mid-December when I awoke to the sounds of steady rumbling while lying in the top bunk in my 9-by-5-foot family room in Amtrak’s Southwest Chief train. I climbed down a ladder ...

The surprising carbon footprint of an Amtrak trip across America. By Hiroko Tabuchi Recently, I did something I’ve long dreamed of. I took the train across America. The views were majestic, ...

There’s a kind of magic to watching a landscape roll by through a train window—villages, vineyards, and mountains unfolding like a slow-motion film. In springtime, there are trees heavy with fruit ...

Embark on an epic cross-border rail excursion from the U.S. into the heart of the Canadian Rockies over nine days for the ...