title: my-train-travels.org
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subtitle: North America and Overseas
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OBB locomotive in Budapest Keleti station, 2007
Established 2005
VIA Turbo train at Kingston ON, 1982
Last updated:
June 23, 2008
What's New:
La Grande Allure:
Reprise

(also La Grande Allure:
2000's
)

More than 750 passenger-train trips in North America! Approximately the same number in Europe and elsewhere overseas. From The Canadian to the Dominion, Super Continental, Ocean, Muskeg Mixed, Coast Starlight and Durango & Silverton. From the Night Caledonian to Shakespeare Limited, Night Ferry, Rheingold, Orient Express, Sud-Expresso, Palatino and Indian-Pacific. A unique perspective from someone in the thick of the action, either personally or professionally, since the 1950's. Especially for the passenger-train rider, historian, modeller or interested observer - all free of charge. Peter Dawes

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WELCOME!

...to my passenger-train travel logs and consists. I've organized the trips into two logs: NO MATTER WHERE IT'S GOING for North America (Canadian passenger trains accounting for 90% of both trips and distance; American and Mexican, the rest); and LA GRANDE ALLURE for Overseas (European passenger trains during 12 holidays; Australian and Fijian, one).

I've just added the Reprise volume for La Grande Allure, providing an overview of all my Overseas trips (including 37 new photos). I've also posted a revised version of La Grande Allure: 2000's.

Readers can access these two volumes from the What's New box, or any volume by means of the toolbar.

This leaves one volume to be added: the Companion Document for La Grande Allure.

Please note that these volumes are personal accounts of my passenger-train and associated road, marine and air trips, supplemented by lots of photos and other images. I hope they will appeal to those interested in the role of the passenger train in society, and the evolution of rail travel over this period. While trip purpose, references to travelling companions, and anecdotes are included, I've tried to present them in such a manner as to be easily avoidable by those looking strictly for train consists or composition.

To determine if these volumes might be of interest, please click on Background.

PHOTOS: Left - MAV Hungarian State/OBB Austrian Federal No. EC 62 waits to depart Budapest Keleti station for Wien and Munchen, behind OBB electric locomotive 1116 020-7 (2007-10-08); Right - VIA Turbotrain pauses at Kingston ON, on its way from Montreal to Toronto (1982-08-??). [Both PETER H. DAWES].
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Home    Background    Getting Started    Copyright & Photos    Contact Us    The Author   
No Matter Where It's Going    La Grande Allure    Links

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