there are some folks from Bellows Falls VT
who organize train trips whifch often feature
music. http://www.flyingunderradar.com/
a friend of mine just got back from going
to the copper canyon in mexico with a
bunch of singers and song writers and
cowboy musicians. this was very memorable
for him...i got to see the pictures--
it loooked like fun. (noy MY memories)

There is a trip across canada this fall
with another group of musicians, many who
specialize in cowboy songs...


one train trip that was really literalyy
a "trip" would have been the festival express
i hope to see the movie some day..
http://www.festivalexpress.com/
the grateful dead, janis joplin and other
wild and crazy folks were on it. Perhaps
this is the train adventure which has
inspired the flying under radar folks.

sometimes these days when you book a train trip
in the u.s. you end up travelling most or all of
it on a bus, which can sometimes be dissapointing
as the train tracks go thru more remote and scenic
areas than the highways the busses must travel on.

the feather river canyon near me used to be the
route the California zephyr took on the way across
the country...perhaps chicago was the eastern terminal

they no longer send passenger trains thru the canyon,
due to rock slides and potential unstable soil. that
does not stop the nuke trains with radioactive waste
from using that route, though. go figure.

i rode the train to san diego from northern california.
the most memorable part was when the engineer talked
to us about the scenery, and wildlife that we could
see out the window...he told us about wild boars and
mountain lions near vandenburg air force base.