You said, "I love railways and train travel, so I would spend a couple of days each month visiting or volunteering at railway museums. "
Tom, even better is to actually take a great train trip. In the United States there are a couple long haul train trips that are worthwhile that I've done a number of times. Amtrak of course is a lousy service, but even Amtrak can't spoil the breathtaking scenery of America. And you deal with the discomfort and the delays for that reason. And it's better than driving because you don't have to constantly watch the road. Plus interstates are dull.
There are currently a number of East West transcontinental routes, depending on whether they take a northern route, a southern route, or go across the middle of the country. There's also several that go (roughly) up the West Coast, North-South along the Mississippi River, and up the East Coast. My favorite transcontinental or semi-transcontinental trip used to be called the San Francisco Zephyr. It still goes from Chicago to San Francisco and his breathtaking. Riding along in a gorge along the Colorado River for hundreds of miles. Crossing the Rocky mountains. Crossing the Sierra Nevada...I'm sure you don't get that in England. The welfare state has not gotten around to erecting some mountains😳.
I haven't yet tried the transcontinental voyage across Canada, but I understand that is spectacular as well.
Yes, I do a great deal of train travel here in the UK! This weekend I'm taking a special excursion train up to Preston.
In the US, I've ridden the Lake Shore Limited throughout and parts of the Crescent, the Northeast Regional, the Acela, the Hartford Line, and the Pacific Surfliner (as well as various commuter rail lines). I've also done the Cascades from Seattle across the border to Vancouver. Better than any of those however was the privately run Brightline from Orlando to Miami which I did in February.
You said, "I love railways and train travel, so I would spend a couple of days each month visiting or volunteering at railway museums. "
Tom, even better is to actually take a great train trip. In the United States there are a couple long haul train trips that are worthwhile that I've done a number of times. Amtrak of course is a lousy service, but even Amtrak can't spoil the breathtaking scenery of America. And you deal with the discomfort and the delays for that reason. And it's better than driving because you don't have to constantly watch the road. Plus interstates are dull.
There are currently a number of East West transcontinental routes, depending on whether they take a northern route, a southern route, or go across the middle of the country. There's also several that go (roughly) up the West Coast, North-South along the Mississippi River, and up the East Coast. My favorite transcontinental or semi-transcontinental trip used to be called the San Francisco Zephyr. It still goes from Chicago to San Francisco and his breathtaking. Riding along in a gorge along the Colorado River for hundreds of miles. Crossing the Rocky mountains. Crossing the Sierra Nevada...I'm sure you don't get that in England. The welfare state has not gotten around to erecting some mountains😳.
I haven't yet tried the transcontinental voyage across Canada, but I understand that is spectacular as well.
Yes, I do a great deal of train travel here in the UK! This weekend I'm taking a special excursion train up to Preston.
In the US, I've ridden the Lake Shore Limited throughout and parts of the Crescent, the Northeast Regional, the Acela, the Hartford Line, and the Pacific Surfliner (as well as various commuter rail lines). I've also done the Cascades from Seattle across the border to Vancouver. Better than any of those however was the privately run Brightline from Orlando to Miami which I did in February.
Thomas, what was it about the Brightline? I wouldn't have thought there would be any scenery unlike other parts of the US.