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...Mount Rainier, and you'll pass forests of fir and cedar. For man-made wonders, look for the formidable container ships in Seattle's harbor and the giant Boeing plant. Whether you travel north or south on the Cascades, be sure to nab a waterside seat www.amtrakcascades.com 800-USA-RAIL). --By Francine Russo...
OVERLAND TRAIL CLICKETY-CLACK BACK TO A MORE GRACIOUS PAST If there is a time machine that allows you to relive the days when going by rail meant going in style, when women dressed up and wore gloves and men sported fedoras and suits with wide lapels, it is the Overland Trail, a 1939 club lounge car that was once a part of the Southern Pacific streamliner that ran from Oakland, Calif., to Chicago. Owners Bill and Debbie Hatrick of Santa Ana, Calif., have restored the car to its original condition and made it available for private parties and public...
...trains rendezvous in Osier, a ghost town accessible only by rail or dirt road. As crews prepare the historic trains for their return descents, you can relax and drink in the mountain views over lunch, before reboarding to return to your starting point or switching trains to continue your journey to the opposite point www.cumbrestoltec.com 888-CUMBRES). --By Adrianne Navon...
...give you an on-train trim for a $5 donation. Most of the streamliners of yesteryear had barbershops, Nickles explains. They were "an amenity for business travelers from the '30s to the late '50s. It was all part of the time when train travel was gracious" www.overlandtrail.com 800-KEY-RAIL...
...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...