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Locomotives belonging to BNSF (Burlington Northern Sante Fe Railroad) with various liveries or paint schemes, Denver, Colorado, 2008.

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Amtrak's Coast Starlight winds through the Central Valley, California, USA, 2008.

Routes

The California Zephyr. The Trans-Siberian Railway. The Orient Express. Some train services and the routes that they take are so famous that their names come to symbolize the magic of travel.

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Down South on Amtrak’s Palmetto Service

The Amtrak Palmetto at Savannah Station, Savannah, Georgia, USA, 2015.

September 29, 2018 //  by Highball Number 8//  Leave a Comment

We rode Amtrak’s Palmetto in October 2015 in a two-day stretch. On Sunday we got on at Savannah, Georgia, where the Palmetto originates daily around 0820, and rode to North Charleston (Amtrak does not have a station in Charleston proper) and spent the night in Charleston, South Carolina. The next day we took Monday’s Palmetto from North Charleston all the way to Philadelphia.

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The West Highland Line: Lochs, Moors, and Scotland’s West Coast

View from a Mallaig-bound West Highland Line train on Rannoch Moor, Scotland, UK, 2010.

September 29, 2018 //  by Highball Number 8//  Leave a Comment

Scotland’s West Highland Line is one of the most scenic rail journeys in the world, and I think it must be the best one-day scenic rail journey, period.

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