TRAIN JOURNEYS

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TRAIN JOURNEYS

The MOST SCENIC TRAINS in North America (2025 Guide)

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Amtrak's Southwest Chief: Chicago to Los Angeles

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Europe's LONGEST & Most UNIQUE Sleeper Train Journey

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How Bad is San Francisco to Los Angeles by Amtrak?

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Living in a Tiny Roomette from NYC to Seattle on an Amtrak Train

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80 hrs from London to Istanbul by Sleeper Train

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How to Survive 3 Nights in a SEAT on U.S. TRAINS, Solo | Amtrak California Zephyr

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3 DAY Amtrak Sleeper Train: COACH, ROOMETTE, & BEDROOM Tested

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Eating on the Rails: Food on Amtrak 🚅

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🇨🇦8 DAYS Canada's Sleeper Train Adventure! (Vancouver to Montreal) | The Canadian

Five things to bring on your long distance Amtrak journey

Amtrak Texas Eagle Dining Car Tour & Menu Review - First Class Train Travel - Food Not Amtrack Acela

Riding Aboard Amtrak's Auto Train

A day in the life of an Amtrak conductor

What’s it like to travel in an Amtrak sleeper car?

Amtrak Texas Eagle dining car tour and menu review - First class train travel

Amtrak California Zephyr to Chicago; roomette and train tour

TRIP REPORT - Amtrak California Zephyr, Chicago to San Francisco

Amtrak's Coast Starlight: Los Angeles to Seattle

Heartland food prepared and served on Amtrak - America's Heartland

Amtrak California Zephyr to Chicago; roomette and train tour

How to board your Amtrak sleeper car 😴

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What’s it like to travel in an Amtrak sleeper car?

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MORE BLOG ENTRIES BY TOM GILLISPIE

• Resume for a writer and editor

• An editor's views on powerful writing

• Advice for be and would-be novelists

• Links to TG's stories online

• Favorite quotes

• What I do when I'm editing

ANECDOTES BY TOM GILLISPIE

• Wipeout at Death Valley

• Days with rainbows

• A desperate writer working in the dark

• Yer OUTTA there!

EDITOR@WORK BLOG ENTRIES

• You really DO need an editor

• Reminders for would-be novelists

• What I do when I'm editing

• What I charge (it's a deal) and what I edit

• Slogging through the Internet

• J-school: More eyes on your stories

• J-school: Go out and learn

• Rookie mistakes for magazine writers

ENTRIES FROM THE DOG BLOG

• Katie cried

• Growl and pull

• 13-plus years with my dog Lady

• ... said the spider to ...

• The Dog Diary (2014)

• YIP! YIP! The stereo-sound huskies

• What Lady and Michael Jackson had in common

BLOG ENTRIES FROM THE AUTO RACING JOURNAL

• Angel in Black: Remembering Dale Earnhardt Sr.

(a book of great stories about the Intimidator)

• Then Junior Said to Jeff...

(the book of great NASCAR stories)

• My best day as a sports writer

• Jeff Gordon's milk toast to Dale Earnhardt

• Wayne Auton: A life in racing

Links to TRAIN VIDEOS

Top 5 reasons to take the train 🚂

MORE TRAINS

Train Types Explained in 25 Minutes

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Train of the Future - Documentary of future transportation

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Why The US Has No High-Speed Rail

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The Trains that Killed an Airline - Italian HSR

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Why are Gravels Laid under Railway Tracks

The Amazing Looping Railroad | #Shorts

What If The United States Had A National High Speed Rail Network?

That time a train powered a town - CN 3502 

 

258. The new rail-canal bridge that was built in just seven days.

Steam Trains Galore 7!

GENERAL TRAINS

Amtrak Maple Leaf Full Record: Toronto to NYC by 13-hour train (Detour Bonus)

Tips for cross country train travel

California Trains! 1 Hour, 150+ Trains!

Railroad hot spot Barstow, Cal. 06/26+07/01/2019

My luxurious train ride on the Rocky Mountaineer

Rocky Mountaineer Train Trip | Canada Travel Diary

The problem with fast trains: What happened to hovertrains?

World's most beautiful railway - The Bernina Express

Why this train Is the envy of the world: The Shinkansen story

Plans on hold for high speed rail from Transbay to LA

Custom-made train to carry George HW Bush to his final resting place

10 hyperloops that will change the world | The B1M

Why Hyperloop will FAIL HARD - Its Biggest Problem!

The problem with fast trains: What happened to hovertrains?

When these three teens took this selfie, they captured what killed them on camera

Klondike Alaska: A Rail History

ORIENT EXPRESS

The Orient Express: King of Trains, Train of Kings

Venice Simplon Orient Express: Video guide

THE WORLD

Riding the Sleeper Train in Japan on a Heavy Snow Day (Tokyo→Izumo-shi)

ILLEGAL FREEDOM: Train Surfing Journey To The Black Sea

Trans-Siberian by private train

Traveling Ecuador by train | DW Travel Documentary

Traveling Iran by train | DW Documentary

The best train in Egypt | Watania Train | First Class Sleeper - Cairo to Aswan

Inside Kyushu's luxury liner - THE SEVEN STARS

OVERNIGHT TRAIN Oslo to Stavanger, Norway (first class private room)

Would You Ride Africa's Worst Train? | 18 Hours In A Freight Truck

Strasburg Railroad: Plowing the Line

Schwebebahn: Why Wuppertal's Trains Are Much Cooler Than Yours

Toronto to Vancouver by train: VIA Rail's 'Canadian'

London's fake houses

Kismet train collision 13 years later

Train ride from Cusco to Machu Picchu, Peru

Why the world's smallest country has a railroad

JAPAN

 

Cheapest Private Room on Japan's Overnight Sleeper Train 😴 12 Hour Trip from Tokyo 

Train Ambience - Relaxing Train Journey with Rain Sounds

TRAIN SOUNDS

All Aboard It Is Sleepy Time

Relaxing Train Sounds and Blizzard Howling

Relaxing Train Journey - 10 Hrs Video w/ Soothing Sounds for Relaxation, Meditation, Study and Sleep

🎧 Thunderstorm & Rain on a Train | Deep Sleep & Relaxation with Ambient Noise, @Ultizzz day#78

Long train sounds for sleep : Night train 8 hour sound

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EMAIL: tgilli52@gmail.com  BLUESKY: PROFILE

MORE BLOG ENTRIES BY TOM GILLISPIE

• Resume for a writer and editor

• An editor's views on powerful writing

• Advice for be and would-be novelists

• Links to TG's stories online

• Favorite quotes

• What I do when I'm editing

ANECDOTES BY TOM GILLISPIE

• Wipeout at Death Valley

• Days with rainbows

• A desperate writer working in the dark

• Yer OUTTA there!

EDITOR@WORK BLOG ENTRIES

• You really DO need an editor

• Reminders for would-be novelists

• What I do when I'm editing

• What I charge (it's a deal) and what I edit

• Slogging through the Internet

• J-school: More eyes on your stories

• J-school: Go out and learn

• Rookie mistakes for magazine writers

ENTRIES FROM THE DOG BLOG

• Katie cried

• Growl and pull

• 13-plus years with my dog Lady

• ... said the spider to ...

• The Dog Diary (2014)

• YIP! YIP! The stereo-sound huskies

• What Lady and Michael Jackson had in common

BLOG ENTRIES FROM THE AUTO RACING JOURNAL

• Angel in Black: Remembering Dale Earnhardt Sr.

(a book of great stories about the Intimidator)

• Then Junior Said to Jeff...

(the book of great NASCAR stories)

• My best day as a sports writer

• Jeff Gordon's milk toast to Dale Earnhardt

• Wayne Auton: A life in racing