Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hannah Towey/Insider The 20th Century Limited was once the preferred mode of transportation of the rich and famous. I traveled ...

The Alaska Railroad was completed three decades before Alaska became a state. It stretches from Seward to Fairbanks, the northernmost passenger train station in North America. With its glass dome and ...

Rail travel has long captured the imagination of people, from the first transcontinental journeys in North America and Australia to groundbreaking British trains and incredible advancements by the ...

The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express (VSOE), a Belmond Train, is arguably the most famous train in the world. It has defined luxury railway travel since it began running in May 1982, the culmination of ...

Trains come and go from Houston every day, carrying the things that end up in stores and factories around the region. None of them get the attention or attract the crowds of Union Pacific’s Big Boy.

Japan's Shinkansen bullet train was the first high-speed rail network in the world, debuting in 1964. Tokaido is the busiest line, running at 186 miles per hour and connecting Tokyo and Osaka in less ...