Rosario Dawson On Why Train Travel Is Best
With National Train Day being held last weekend, train travel has been buzzing. Sure airplanes might get all the press -- good or bad -- there are peo...
With National Train Day being held last weekend, train travel has been buzzing. Sure airplanes might get all the press -- good or bad -- there are peo...
The Huffington Post | Rebecca Dolan | Posted 05.12.2012
A fresh-tossed Caesar salad with red pepper, goat cheese and chicken; spice seared salmon topped with tropical fruit salsa; and slow-braised short rib...
Flavorwire | Claire Cottrell | Posted 05.09.2012
A few weeks ago we set out on a virtual adventure to find the most beautiful train stations in the world. Our imaginations were set adrift by the roma...
Regina Fraser and Pat Johnson | Posted 05.29.2012
Built in 1939, the station features classic architecture and is listed on the National Registry of Historical Places.
AP | MICHAEL R. BLOOD | Posted 03.26.2012
VICTORVILLE, Calif. -- On a dusty, rock-strewn expanse at the edge of the Mojave Desert, a company linked to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wants t...
BootsnAll | Posted 04.23.2012
No matter how many improvements are made to transportation methods, there's something undeniably appealing about old-school train travel.
Posted 02.29.2012
With Chinese New Year just around the corner, workers from Beijing to Changsha are lining up in droves to purchase train tickets for peak travel seaso...
AP | Posted 12.23.2011
NEW YORK -- More Americans are expected to take long trips this holiday season – and in many parts of the country it looks to be smooth sailing....
Olga Bonfiglio | Posted 01.28.2012
Years after a childhood Amtrak ride, I discovered the Empire Builder, the long-haul line from Chicago to Seattle and Portland. I decided the adventure of traveling all those miles was just too good to miss.
www.cnn.com | Posted 11.22.2011
A massive engineering project should soon trim travel times between Zurich and Milan, a trans-Alpine trip that about 10,000 people make daily. The ...
Olga Bonfiglio | Posted 01.22.2012
It didn't take long before we saw amazing vistas where land and sky meet at a faraway horizon and mountains in green, pink, blue or beige depending on their geologic time of formation.
Christine Negroni | Posted 01.15.2012
That electric trains have been traveling American for more than 100 years was news to me, but at the Interurban Railway Museum in Plano, Texas that's just part of the story.
Holly Robinson | Posted 01.14.2012
The old mayor's widow, dressed in black with her gray hair coming loose in a fountain from her bun, helped direct us, screaming at all of the village men to move their scooters out of our way.
Posted 12.31.2011
Rail passengers in the Northeast will no longer have to book seats on Amtrak's pricey Acela to have access to Wi-Fi. Wireless internet access has been...
AP | By JOHN S. MARSHALL | Posted 12.13.2011
SAN FRANCISCO -- An Amtrak train crashed into another train unloading passengers in an Oakland station, leaving 16 people with mainly minor injuries, ...
Infrastructurist | Posted 11.28.2011
Rail journeys expose you to sights and experiences other forms of travel simply can't.
JustLuxe | Posted 10.29.2011
Without having to worry about things like commuter service and freight hauling, railway revivalists can find and explore pockets of natural beauty.
Katie Beck | Posted 10.29.2011
It started out tasting like very strong blue cheese, but the flavor quickly went from pungent to spicy and then seemed to coat my tongue and the inside of my mouth like peanut butter.
Huffington Post | Andrew Burmon | Posted 10.12.2011
Train travel is a more genteel option in the age of baggage fees and budget airlines. Life on the rails somehow seems unchanged since those pre-WWI bo...
Posted 11.30.2011
Dutch train passengers running late to their appointments have a quicker option for getting across Overvecht Station - and that option isn't a new fli...
AOL Travel News | Posted 08.08.2011
Europe's first high-speed international trains to use solar panel generated electricity were introduced Monday. The trains link the cities of Paris an...
Michael Hodson | Posted 07.19.2011
Everyone is free to take whatever route they want to get to the finish line. The variations of train routes in Europe are likely to be dramatic between all of us.
Johnny Jet | Posted 05.25.2011
CHECK-IN We were next to track 12, and I wasn't sure what the train looked like, so I asked the porter if the train behind him was the E&O. He laug...
Martha Rosenberg | Posted 11.17.2011
Thanks to the cost of gas, parking, insurance and repairs, more people are discovering the life of the strap hanger -- if their city has a metro and they still have a job, that is.
Lauri Lyons | Posted 05.25.2011
If wild safari animals and ghosts roaming around your luxury tent isn't enough of a thrill for you, don't worry -- the South Africans have more wild activities up their vuvuzelas.
Posted 05.18.2012