Newly released video captured the moment the driver of an SUV escaped from an SUV just before the vehicle was smashed by a Utah Transit Authority (UTA) passenger train in Layton, Utah, last week. The video, captured from inside the locomotive, showed the ...

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What it’s really like to travel cross-country by rail. Mi wrote and illustrated this comic after spending three and a half days aboard two Amtrak trains. This summer, I was determined to take a train across the United States. I started in Northern ...

Why navigate crowded roads to get your fill of autumn colors when you can ride the rails and enjoy gorgeous scenery you can’t see from the highway? By Julie Weed The air is crisp, and the leaves are bursting into vivid hues. Maybe you’re planning a ...

After riding the rails around the world, I was eager to try Japan's bullet trains. My trip from Osaka to Tokyo was smooth and comfy, but I felt motion sickness for the first time. I couldn't enjoy the scenery, but the efficiency of travel made it worth the ...

Travel writer Everett Potter is releasing a new book, "100 Train Journeys of a Lifetime." Potter advocates for train travel as a form of "slow travel" that offers a more immersive experience. Notable international train journeys include the Orient Express ...

A moving train fills the frame of a shaky video. A ladder looms, and hands grip the rungs. A blur of movement, and you're inside an open train car piled with coal, trees whipping by on either side. "It's super fun," says Will, whose GoPro camera captured ...

I've ridden trains all around the US and the UK, and there are things I've learned along the way. I always give myself plenty of time to get to the station and in between any transfers. Having a printed-out version of my ticket makes things easier on the ...

Canadian Pacific Kansas City Railroad's holiday train, a locomotive and cars adorned with thousands of lights, will once again pass through Michigan tonight, Nov. 22, providing opportunities for those in Metro Detroit and southeast Michigan to see the ...

In this series, NPR takes readers and listeners behind the news and explains how we do our journalism. Here, Eyder Peralta transports us to Mexico for this week's Reporter's Notebook. For decades, migrants have been riding north through Mexico aboard a ...