Florida is more than make believe. Take a step back in time and get riding on the rails.
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Only America would create a Train Day, everyone else just has trains. While we first thought this was a gathering of model train experts and pedophiles, we’ve since learned that it is a fake holiday designed to create awareness that there are trains in America — terribly slow and inefficient trains on the East...
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Hop aboard and get ready to ride. You're on the newer and faster high-speed rail in Spain. But will saving time really save you time in the land of lost time?
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Answer the following question to the best of your ability: Q)    Europe is best known for: a.)    Being really old b.)    Bidets c.)    Hygiene – or lack thereof d.)    Great rail service e.)    All the above The correct answer is: D (though you could make an argument for E). Nobody gives better train than...
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The LA Time Travel blog recently wrote about traveling with needles. Basically, heroine addicts and speed shooters may want to think twice before packing up a bunch of needles in their carry on bags (checked luggage is still game though).  The reason: TSA agents tend to become pricks when they come across a few...
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Investigators are still trying to figure out how two commuter trains hit each other in Belgium today, which may have left 20 people dead, according to Times Online. Rescue workers were still cutting through the wreckage to pull passengers out of the trains that hit each other at a suburb about eight miles outside...
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Any good traveler knows he or she is going to waste some time waiting. It just happens. But when the delay is nothing more than a big train blocking progress, well, that doesn't bode well for our nonplussed traveler.
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Wifi is the new treat every piece of public transportation wants to offer -- and Amtrak is on track to offering to travelers.
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