Riding the Rails: Tourist Guide to America's Scenic Train Rides

Now in an updated second edition, Riding The Rails: Tourist Guide To America's Scenic Train Rides is a straightforward, "user friendly" guidebook to 151 scenic train rides in 44 states. Each train rides is featured in a concise one-page description format that informs the reader where the ride is, its street address, telephone number and associated web URL, the price, schedule, and special holiday events. Riding The Rails is quick and easy reference for anyone in America who enjoys a good train ride for fun, and a highly recommended addition to any dedicated train buff's American railroading reference collection.

Many people enjoy rides on old fashioned trains with steam locomotives. Mr. Herow's book provides information on trains in all fifty states. The book is divided by states in alphabetical order with information on the railroads, such as when they run, phone numbers and maps with the routes and major local roads. The back of the book has information on other tourist sites and places to stay. Four things I would have added. 1. Whether the railroads themselves are payable by credit card. 2. Do you need to make reservations so you don't get there and find out you can't board? 3. Photographs of each railroad would have been good. This would help people make up their minds about taking a certain scenic railway. 4. Local transit, airports, Greyhound or Amtrak terminals and their distance from the railroad should have been listed. Otherwise, for what it does, a very useful book.