For a price, you can drive the best-preserved steam locomotive in America, and get a very visceral understanding of how technology shapes mobility.
Readers recall the glory days of Buffalo’s train station, of trips they took, of its grand clock, the sleeper cars, of arrivals and departur
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Writer David L. Ulin hops aboard
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At the Santa Margarita Ranch, the Pacific Coast Railroad offers rides on passenger cars that were originally used at Disneyland on the theme park’s railroad attraction.
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This fall, why not try riding âcar-freeâ as a passenger on one of New Englandâs vintage railroads, focused on autumnâs patchwork quilt of colors, not traffic? Youâll rumble along networks of historic track, most originally laid to transport passengers and goods and now restored for these excursions. From your window, relish the movable vistas, some visible only by train: woodlands, cranberry bogs, wooden bridges, steep ravines, gorges, forts, waterfront, sand dunes, lighthouses, wildlife. Listen to the tour guide and, on most trains, dine on options from simple snacks to elegant dinners. Trips last from 35 minutes to 5½ hours. The memories last a lot longer. CAFE LAFAYETTE DINNER TRAIN North Woodstock, New Hampshire Duration 2 hours Length 20 miles
Metra is spending $400 million on a federally mandated system to improve train safety and hopes to have it ready by the end of 2019.