Train Travel: America By Rail

Embark on a new journey in an old-fashioned way with America By Rail. This tour company offers rail travel and vacation packages throughout North America and Europe.

See the United States and Canada by train, or hop off and enjoy a few days of cruising. Tourists can choose when, where and how they want to explore with tour options all over, all year-round.

See Alaska by train in May on a 13-day trip from Chicago to Juneau, Glacier Bay, Sitka, Ketchikan and Victoria with a day of cruising in between.

The European rail tour highlights the natural beauty of Switzerland with accommodations in luxury hotels along the way. With this tour option, airfare from Newark International Airport to Switzerland is included for about $3,595 a person. The train and guide will take travelers for eight days to the most beautiful sites of the Alpine Tunnels, Bern, St. Moritz and Zurich for a trip of a lifetime.

The site offers so many options, from a coast-to-coast train ride or a Northwest tour; tosee the national parks, visit the nation’s top music cities, circle the Great Lakes or head over to Hawai’i with Princess Cruise Lines.

For travel enthusiasts that want to road trip without having to drive, rail travel may be the way to go. Passengers can move from car to car during the ride, see the gorgeous landscape pass by or dine with like-minded passengers on their trip.