Trains, train travel, and all things railroad-related.
This is the first piece of content on this site that I didn’t really create. It’s more of a “blog post” than the other, mini-features I have created about places I have traveled on a train (and sometimes not on a train). Instead, I’m talking about photos from somebody else’s train trip.
…RFK’s Funeral Train – Photos by Paul Fusco (via <i>The Atlantic</i>)Read More
Iceland is another country that does not have trains. Wikipedia says there was a narrow-gauge railway in the early 20th Century used in the construction of Reykjavik’s harbor and that in the future there is a possibility of light rail in Reykjavik and a train to Keflavik airport (a distance of about 50km). But because of Iceland’s rugged landscape, the concentration of most of the population in the Reykjavik area, and cars, even those two projects may never happen.
…The Trinidad Government Railway ran from 1876 until its closure in 1968. Like many railways around the world, it was shut down because of competition from cars. Today its old central station in Port of Spain, the Trinidad Government Railway Building, also known as City Gate, is a bus terminal and home of the Public Transport Service Corporation (PTSC). It sits across from the South Quay Lighthouse on Port of Spain’s waterfront, down the street from Independence Square and a Kentucky Fried Chicken location rumored to be one of the busiest KFCs in the world.
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