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I'm thinking about taking a rail trip over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend in mid-January, 2010 and would like some advice on which of the train routes out of Chicago are considered the "best" at that time of year. I rode the Empire Builder this past May and I'd like to try another...

I returned this week from a 12-day visit to Istanbul, during which I visited Sirkeci Train Station several times. The station was the terminis point for the Orient Express and serves, today, as the state railway terminal and welcomes international trains as well. Inside the station is a small...

What an opportunity. With camera in hand taking some photos as I crossed from the European to the Asian side of Istanbul today a vehicle ferry passed in front of us - with a passenger rail car and some freight cars on-board.

My interest in traveling cross-country on one of the classic routes operated by Amtrak to the western United States heightened in 2008 and I first became aware of this Amtrak Unlimited website during my research. Scheduling conflicts and the then (at the time of the year I decided I wanted to...

My recently-completed trip on the Empire Builder from Chicago to Seattle was in the planning stage for more than 5-months and one of the gadgets I purchased to bring along was Microsoft Street & Trips software for my laptop computer, with a GPS receiver. The only prior experience I've had with...