Jan. 14, 2026.
No Matter Where 2020's & Reprise
La Grande Allure 2020's & Reprise
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No Matter Where 2020's & Reprise La Grande Allure 2020's & Reprise |
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| Approximately 950 passenger-train trips taken to date in North America, and 980 in Europe and elsewhere Overseas. From the Dominion to the Canadian, Super Continental, Ocean, Muskeg Mixed, Coast Starlight, Empire Builder, Silver Meteor, City of New Orleans, Denali Star and Durango & Silverton. From the Night Caledonian to Shakespeare Limited, Night Ferry, Rheingold, Orient Express, Sud-Expresso, Palatino, Dacia, Sofiya Express, Indian-Pacific, Dibrugarh Rajdhani Express and Nozomi Shinkansen. A unique perspective from someone in the thick of the action, personally and professionally, since the 1950's. Especially for the passenger-train rider, historian, modeller or interested observer, all free of charge. |
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... to my passenger-train travel logs and consists. I've organized the trips into two projects: NO MATTER WHERE IT'S GOING for North America (Canadian passenger trains accounting for 87% of trips and 82% of distance; American, Mexican and Costa Rican, the rest); and LA GRANDE ALLURE for Overseas (European passenger trains during 14 holidays; Australian and Fijian, Indian and Sri Lankan, Japanese and Hong Kong, one holiday each).
I've just posted updated No Matter Where It's Going 2020's and Reprise volumes, which incorporate trips made during 2025, again on VIA's Canadian (including both ways between Edmonton and Toronto) and the usual Ontario-Quebec Corridor trains. Readers can access these two volumes under Latest above, or all volumes by means of the horizontal toolbar located both above and at the bottom of these pages. (Please note that all other volumes have been updated as well.)
I've also just posted a new La Grande Allure 2020's and updated Reprise volumes, which incorporate trips made during our 2025 European holiday, everything from a Bruxelles/Brussel-London Eurostar to the Istanbul-Sofiya Sofiya Express, Berlin-Zurich Nightjet, Basel-Paris TGV Lyria, Dublin-Belfast Enterprise, London-Glasgow Caledonian Sleeper, also Weisseritztalbahn narrow-gauge steam train in Germany. Readers can access these two volumes under Latest above, or all volumes by means of the horizontal toolbar located both above and at the bottom of these pages. (Please note that all other volumes have been updated as well.)
My intention is to continue posting further versions where necessary, including annual updates at the beginning of each new year in which there have been further travels.
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 - VIA Rail Canada No. 1 Canadian being serviced at Sioux Lookout ON (2025/09/22) [SANDRA DAWES]; Right - Turkish State YHT high-speed train waiting to depart from Ankara to Istanbul (2025/05/03) [SANDRA DAWES].
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