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Top 10 train
rides
By
Lori
Rackl on
June 17, 2009 3:52 PM
This interesting bit of news popped up
in my email today. It's about the best train rides
in the world, as determined by the Society of
American Travel Writers (SATW).
Do you agree with the the travel writers'
opinions on top train journeys? Any epic rail travel
that should have made the list but didn't?
Listed in order of votes with comments from
SATW writers are the world's
"Top 10" train rides:
1. The
Rocky Mountaineer offers spectacular
two-day journeys through the Canadian Rocky
Mountains from Vancouver to Banff or Jasper. "The
Rocky Mountaineer is humbling travel - both for the
monumental landscapes it slices through and the
appreciation of the workers who risked - and
sometimes gave - their lives to build it." Betsa
Marsh, freelance travel writer.
2. The
Glacier Express is the famous Swiss
mountain railway from St. Moritz to Zermatt, a 7.5
hour railway journey that crosses 291 bridges and
burrows through 91 tunnels.
"Take the Glacier Express in winter - you will pass
by skiers, people playing golf in the snow and
spectacular alpine settings." James O'Reilly,
publisher, Traveler's Tales.
The others on the list are to be found here.
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