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...Clark selected men with grit and guts. Both qualities were put to the test: the group battled rattlesnakes and grizzlies, suffered boils and dysentery, portaged canoes up hills and through rocky ravines, and were reduced to eating dogs and horses in the course of their 28-month, 8,000-mile trek to chart the western wilderness...
...Canadian robustness and English Art Deco streamlining," is "one of the most aesthetically pleasing ever built." During the spring and summer months, 2860 pulls a string of vintage passenger cars along tracks that hug the top of a cliff 100 ft. above Howe Sound, north of Vancouver. The 80-mile round trip, much of it poised over the water below, offers views of pretty islands, the Strait of Georgia, lush forests, a span of glaciers, coastal mountains that sweep into the sea and waterfalls so close you can almost touch them. The trip, says Savio, is "on the short list...
...built in the 1880s as part of a rail empire connecting commercial outposts and mining camps, cuts a meandering 64-mile-long swath through frontier history along the mountainous border between Colorado and New Mexico. From Memorial Day weekend to mid-October, steam-driven locomotives, restored to mint condition and fired by tons of hand-stoked coal, maneuver around bends and across streambeds and pant up grades as steep as 4% on a track measuring just 36 in. between the rails...
...three services that run from Cuzco to the famed Inca citadel of Machu Picchu. The most comfortable and costly of the three services is the one-stop, 3 1/4-hour Inca service that leaves Cuzco at 6:15 a.m. daily for Machu Picchu. For railroad buffs, this 70-mile Cuzco-to-Machu Picchu line--another of the few remaining narrow-gauge passenger services still operating in the world--is one of the great rail experiences...
...chugs bravely for more than 10 hours through the thin air of the altiplano that links Cuzco with Puno near the Bolivian border. You can see herds of huddled alpacas and women in layers of skirts and bright shawls as the train ambles by. Halfway along the 239-mile Cuzco-to-Puno trip, it crosses the highest point of any standard-gauge passenger train service in the world at La Raya, 14,172 ft. above sea level (011-51-84-238722, or fax 011-51-84-222114). --By Jane Holligan...