Last updated: July 14, 2008
	What's New: La Grande Allure: Companion Document (also revised La Grande Allure: Reprise)

...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 Companion Document for La Grande Allure, providing train, trip and equipment details in support of the main volumes (including 16 new photos). I've also posted a slightly revised version of La Grande Allure: Reprise.

The Companion Document is the final volume of my train travels - at least for this decade. I intend to continue posting revised versions of all La Grande Allure and No Matter Where It's Going volumes, 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 - Deutsche Bundesbahn No. D351 at Freiburg, western Germany, featuring Sleeping cars of Deutsche Reichsbahn's Mitropa subsidiary (Basel-Dresden), and SZD Soviet Railways (Bern-Moskva) (1992-09-20); Right - VIA Turbotrain pauses at Kingston ON, on its way from Montreal to Toronto (1982-08-??). [Both PETER H. DAWES].