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...include rail travel, accommodations in hotels along the way, meals on the train, tours and travel by motor coach to connecting routes. The train crosses the remote interior of British Columbia, passes pristine lakes, mighty rivers and famous ice fields. It goes through snow-peaked mountain ranges, thick forests and numerous national parks www.rockymountaineer.com...
...Visitors can stand alongside the engineer as he operates the brakes and the burner on the steep grades along the way. For the less daring there are two shorter rides, El Maiten-Vuelta al Rio and Esquel-Nahuel Pan, each 31 miles long. You can avoid cancellations due to snow by booking Argentine spring and summer trips--when it's fall and winter in the U.S. (El Maiten train station: 011-54-2945-49-5190). --By Uki Goni
...year-old daughter Joanna and I were scheduled to fly from New York City to Chicago and, that night, board the legendary City of New Orleans. Our goal was to sample some of the best of the American train experience from the Windy City to the Mississippi Delta. But snow closed the airport. Postponing the Chicago-New Orleans run to Saturday night, we nabbed the last two seats on Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited, leaving Penn Station at 4:30, while hundreds of snowbound air passengers were left milling around LaGuardia Airport. Lesson No. 1: Trains are reliable...
...slept through 14 snow-blanketed stops in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana before pulling into Union Station, Chicago, at about noon. We checked our bags and embarked on a whirlwind tour of the city, returning for the 8 p.m. departure on the City of New Orleans. The lounge and platforms hummed with Saturday-night festivity. Many folks, en route to New Orleans for vacation, had taken to the rails just...
...another busy weekend for the Harvard sailing teams as they traveled from Massachusetts snow to Maryland sun to continue their preparation for spring training...