25 Places You Need To Travel To In Your Lifetime...But Not On A Plane. On This....
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It seems as if the world has forgotten about traveling by train. With cars clogging the highways and airplanes filling the skies, it's easy to forget about this way of travel that once changed lives, provided jobs, and introduced people to beauty they never imagined to see outside of their hometown.
Believe it or not, that beauty is still there and so are some of the tracks. They're just waiting for you to hop along and experience them to the fullest.
Hiram Bingham
Throughout the jungles of Peru, this will take you from Machu Picchu to Cuzco.
The Danube Express
Cruises Central Europe (leaves from Budapest, Hungary).
The Ghan
Bisects Australia, going from Adelaide to Darwin.
Manakara Express
Travels between Madagascar's Fianarantsoa and Manakara.
The Denali Star
From Anchorage to Fairbanks.
Darjeeling Himalayan Railway
From Siliguri and Darjeeling in India.
The Adirondack
From the east coast wine country to Montreal.
The West Highland Line
From Scotland to Glasgow.
TAZARA Railway
Connects the huge port city of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania to the small town of Kapiri Mposhi in Zambia.
Brocken Railway
Located in the highest mountains in Northern Germany.
Cape To Cairo
The TranzAlpine
Between Christchurch and Greymouth in New Zealand.
The Glacier Express
Connects St. Moritz and Zermatt in the Swiss Alps.
The Rhine Valley Line
Throughout Germany's wine country.
El Chepe
Connects Chihuahua to the state of Sinaloa.
First Pasage To The West
Goes between Banff and Vancouver by the Canadian Pacific Railway.
The Al Andalus Express
Passes through Cádiz, Jerez, Ronda, Granada, Linares-Baeza, Ubeda, and Cordoba before returning to Seville, Spain.
Golden Eagle Trans-Siberian Express
This railway travels through Russia, Moscow, and Vladisvostok. It's also the longest railway in the entire world.
Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad
From the municipality of Durango and the town of Silverton, Colorado.
The Royal Scotsman
From Edinburgh to London, Glasgow, and Perth.
The Blue Train
From Pretoria to Cape Town (through Johannesburg).
El Tren Crucero
From Guayaquil to Quito (through the Ecuadorian Andes).
The Semmering Railway
This railway in Austria travels from Mürzzuschlag south to Gloggnitz.
The Eastern & Orient Express
Between Singapore and Bangkok.
The Sunset Limited
From Las Angeles to New Orleans.
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