Rail Rides and True Adventures Archives - Page 4 of 6

Train-hopping the wrong way again on Santa Fe’s Raton route

The Santa Fe’s Raton route’s existence is secure; though a secondary freight line, it has enough business and carries Amtrak’s

The Vegas-to-San Bernardino, Calif., run on the Union Pacific had long intrigued me. I had dark fantasies of crossing the

By the time I realized the train was headed the wrong way, there was nothing to do except scream and

Stampede Pass, the intended capstone to my Stanford train-hopping days, is still a few weeks away. I became impatient and

On Friday night at 11:43 p.m., I caught my 12th train out of San Jose for Los Angeles. It should be

Anybody know any hobbies that don’t include large industrial machinery? After 15 trains and 2,800 miles in two summers of

Barstow, Calif., midway between Vegas and L.A., is the hottest yard of the hottest Western railroad, the Santa Fe. I

I completed a 12-hour, 354-mile run up the Feather River canyon in the Sierra Nevada and through the Black Rock

The Norfolk Southern includes the old Southern Railway and Norfolk & Western. The former N & W territory, alas, is

Having ridden CSX three times, I wanted to knock off its Eastern rival, the Norfolk Southern. It has a militaristic