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Travel the Rails

• Anchorage to Fairbanks
  Amtrak Guide - Denali Star, 800-544-0552
  Alaska Railroad
  Alaska

• Denver to Salt Lake City
  California Zephyr, 800-872-7245
  Amtrak Guide California Zephyr Virtual Museum, the internet home of the train that became known as the "Silver Lady." The CZ was the grandest, and thus the most famous, way to reach the Golden State and the west.
  Amtrak Guide - California Zephyr
  Salt Lake Convention & visitors Bureau
  Colorado
  Utah

• Skagway, Alaska, to Lake Bennett, British Columbia
  White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad, 800-343-7373
  Against all odds, this iron trail was born of the 1898 Klondike Gold Rush and built through some of the North's most ruggedly beautiful terrain. Today, it's a comfortable ride in refurbished train cars following the original route of the hopeful stampeders of 1898.
  Alaska

• Various North American routes
  American Orient Express,888-759-3944
  Return to the romantic days of deluxe rail travel aboard America's only private luxury train -- the American Orient Express. Travel in style over legendary rail routes and witness spectacular scenic attractions that can be seen only by train. 

• Nogales, Arizona to Mexico's Copper Canyon, Mexico
  Sierra Madre Express, 800-666-0346
   It's one of the great scenic train journeys in the world. You stay overnight in Mexican frontier towns and get a true sense of Mexican history and culture among the Tarahumara Indians.
  Arizona
  New Mexico

• Napa to St. Helena
  Napa Valley Wine Train, 800-427-4124
  This three-hour excursion weds food, wine and scenery. Lunch and dinner are served in a restored 1917 Pullman dining car.
  California

• Los Angeles to Santa Barbara
  Coast Starlight, 800-872-7245
  The route ends in Seattle, and while the entire trip is scenic, "the best part is the first three hours. You literally are riding on the edge of the continent. The tracks are within several hundred yards of the ocean."  

• Jasper, Alberta, to Prince Rupert, British Columbia
  Skeena, 800-561-3949
  This VIA Rail Canada route crosses diverse terrain from the Canadian Rockies to the Pacific Ocean, with unfettered views of mountain wilderness. 
  VIA Rail Canada
  British Columbia
  Alberta

• New York to Montreal
  Amtrak Guide - Adirondack, 800-872-7245
  The train's daily run north hugs the Hudson River before hitting the rocky shoreline of Lake Champlain upstate, affording water views for three-quarters of the trip. "You get great panoramic views of the Hudson, then the Adirondack Mountains and Lake Champlain.
  Adirondack.com
  Quebec
  New York

• Hyannis, Mass., to the Cape Cod Canal
  Cape Cod Central Railroad, 888-797-7245
  Massachusetts

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