Train

A sleepless overnight train journey to Cluj, Romania, leaves a disgruntled traveler searching for meaning and finding it in the rolling of a cigarette.

With a backpack of full scrubs, a Certified Nursing Assistant travels across Oregon and Washington on a string of trains and buses, helping strangers along the way, including a retired …

On his first trip abroad, an American traverses the brutal landscape and history of Kazakhstan in search of a house in Semey, where Dostoyevsky endured Siberian exile for choosing truth …

On the long Shatabdi Express ride to Aurangabad, India, an English train passenger finds more value in the people within the carriage than in the view flashing past the window. …

A finalist in our Pilgrimages competition rides the train from Bucharest to Sighișoara, tracing the shadow of the Vlad the Impaler back to his birthplace, on a journey through the …

While traveling via train across Uzbekistan, a tourist reflects on strange unreality that exists while moving from one place to another. This story was selected as a finalist in the …

A traveler composes the symphony of her train journey through Mexico two and a half decades ago. Monterrey to Durango, Mexico (2ª clase)15, October 1997 Movement I We leave behind …