Salvé A question regarding railway journey's here, Assuming one travelled from the very north of north america (USA or Canada) how far South can one go travelling only by Rail? where would the journey start ( Alaska or Newfoundland and what town....) and where would it end and on what railways (railroads) would one travel? travelling by taxi for the purposes of changing Railroad lines is ok if it's in th same town.
Beowulf
The Alaska RR runs from Anchorage to Fairbanks (?). No connection to the south by rail.
The White Pass & Yukon, when I was there in 1992, said it was no longer a common carrier and was only a tourist line. It used to connect Skagway to Dawson, Yukon. But again, there's no rail connection to the south.
Churchill is the farthest north I'm aware of without digging.
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Forget the exact details but it was possible to travel a rather good distance in the 1920s by Interurban-- TrolleyCar from New York well into Wisconsin -- But M-a-n-y changes.
Believe a book on this subject was published.
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My mother took me to visit a friend of hers in Chicago and see the Railroad Fair in 1951 - we left Decatur on the Illinois Terminal RR and transferred to the Roarin' Elgin. Not a super long trip, but decidedly better than taking the 'Hound.
A friend of mine was trying to get hired by a company that was working towards the early stages of setting up a rail connection across the Bering Straits to Russia via British Columbia, theYukon and Alaska.
Personally, I have big doubts this is possible with current technologies, so I am happy they didn't hire her. I have the idea it was all a big scam.
But on the off chance they ever are successful, there is a new longest journey. :)
Babboo
New York to London in how many years...?
:-)
John
And also back in the day, you could travel from the Great Lakes deep into Texas via narrow gauge!
Wow...if they did it you could go from Halifax all the way to Moscow by train....that would be some trip
I'm envious! That would have been a great trip...
I remember some Santa Fe stuff the most: a Navajo sand painting crew, and what I think was a Blue Goose Hudson, although I don't think they were on regular runs at that time. Maybe they ran it in for show, or it might have been some other road's streamlined steam engine. I was not particularly conversant in steam loco lore at the age of 8: I remember taking the Wabash from Decatur to Peru around that time and being surprised by one of their semi-streamlined class P-1 Hudsons with elephant ear smoke deflectors. Quite a sight in that Wabash blue.
Not just "a" Blue Goose Hudson; it would have been "the", as ATSF had only one.
He did question whether connections by barge might be allowed. The Alaska RR does have a car float operation from Seattle to Whittier.
Salvé
Barge away dear boy, : ) beowulf
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