Train travel, whether on multi-day luxury routes or shorter regional rails, has become an increasingly popular way to get across the country in recent years. From Amtrak's east coast rails to long, ...

Forget expensive flights and cramped buses. Train travel delivers something increasingly rare in our rushed world: the chance to watch landscapes unfold at a pace that actually lets you appreciate ...

Railroad transportation may seem like a thing of the past — and that's because it is. Trains and their railway systems played a pivotal part in our nation's industrialization in the 1800s. But in the ...

The California Zephyr is the longest train route in the U.S., traveling 2,438 miles from Chicago to the Bay Area through the Rockies and Sierra Nevada over 43 hours. The train passes some of the ...