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Take A Train . Jazz drummer Buddy Rich loved to tell the story about how Lawrence Welk introduced the Billy Strayhorn composition "Take The A Train."  Welk, the famous middle America band leader said, "Now we're going to play the song, "Take a train."  Buddy would always get hesterical telling the story. Welk got the song title wrong, but his inadvertent suggestion is a good one  -  take a train. The writer Paul Theroux starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station in Boston to catch Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited to Chicago and continued by one train after another to the very tip of South America. It has become one of the most famous train trips in the world and resulted in the book The Old Patagonian Express.

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Some of the great train rides are disappearing. The lust for speed is destroying the passion for the trip itself. But there are still many great train rides left.  Take one.  The Orient-Express still runs. If the Road To Mandalay inspires nostalgia, the Orient-Express inspires awe. We've listed a wide array of train sites and train rides. You can still ride the Patagonian Express through Patagonia. You can take train rides through the Australia outback.  We've got websites and books listed on two pages of this Unique Lifestyles section.  Hey, take a train. Buddy Rich would love it.
 

Riding the Rails - Unique Train Trips Worldwide - Riding the Rails - Unique Train Trips Worldwide - From Africa to Wales, if we could have found one for Zanzibar we'd have included that too. Write us an article for our eZine about your adventure. Books on train travel and train trips - Books on train travel and train trips - All the tips and trips of moving by train across the earth's surface. A surprising number of good books on train travel.