Tired of driving across America and seeing nothing but concrete and asphalt (bumpy roads!) ten boring hours a day?! Plan your next vacation on the railroad! You’ll sit in a comfy cabin with unfettered views of the awesome wilderness America is famous for. Here’s a list of the best train journeys in America. Check out the photos – the kind of awesome landscape, mile and mile, hour after hour, you won’t be able to experience any other way.
At night you’ll fall asleep to the rhythm of the rails – or peer out at a starry sky you’ll never see from the big city, with all that ugly light pollution.
Freight trains are extremely energy-efficient: they can move a ton of freight 500 miles on a gallon of diesel! Likewise for moving people by train versus a vehicle on the highway. Travel by rail is 3-5 times more energy-efficient than by car.
So, if you must travel, take a low-carbon vacation and go by rail!
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Excerpted from Going Green, available as an eBook at this list of eBook retailers online.