Dreaming of Travel: The Romance of the Rails

Long the fastest way to get there, and now the most romantic, rail has been spiriting us to our destinations for ages.
Dreaming of Travel: The Romance of the Rails
The Venice Simplon Orient Express passing through the Brenner Pass, Austria. Courtesy of Venice-Simplon-Orient-Express
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These days, the view out the windows of our apartments, and houses, and home offices doesn’t really change—lovely or not, we’re seeing the same things every day.
Staring out those panes, it makes you dream of crossing countries, and continents, all of it—cities and mountains and rivers and coastlines—rolling by, hour by glorious hour, just outside that glass. Long the fastest way to get there, and now the most romantic, rail has been spiriting us to our destinations for ages.
Tim Johnson
Tim Johnson
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Toronto-based writer Tim Johnson is always traveling in search of the next great story. Having visited 140 countries across all seven continents, he’s tracked lions on foot in Botswana, dug for dinosaur bones in Mongolia, and walked among a half-million penguins on South Georgia Island. He contributes to some of North America’s largest publications, including CNN Travel, Bloomberg, and The Globe and Mail.
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