What is the longest train trip you have experienced?

From California to New Jersey at 20. Took a plane to L.A.. Then Houston. then by the same car, from Houston, to Mendham, NJ.. I started alone, and ended going from Illinois the rest of the way with 6 people. We picked up people to go work at Shiloh, and inner city/camp Christian program. I was dead by the time we got there. What a relief to arrive. :)
 

I’ve taken Amtrak’s Southwest Chief several times, back and forth, Hutchinson Kansas to Fullerton California, riding in coach. Beautiful scenery. The trip takes ~29 hours, unless there is a problem on the tracks or with the train.
 

The longest train ride l ever took was when l was three years old from Vienna to Salzburg. It was two hours and 40 minutes. It was my great grandmother taking me to my mother and brother waiting in Salzburg for us to join ny dad jn Washington DC where he had been transferred to (military). My Grandmother waited until the last minute because of probably thinking she was never going to see me again. She was right. We never saw each other again. She had taken care of me since my birth,That will always always be the longest train ride of my life. It's still going on...........
 
Mind you, have no recollection of the trip. My father died of cardiac arrest at the age of 36. At the time he was in stationed California. We were put on a train to back to Dover, Delaware with a honor guard for his burial, do not remember any of it including him being laid to rest at the village Methodist Church, i was privileged to go many times to pay my respect growing up. MY last visit i was fifteen. I want so bad to go back one more time before I pass,
 
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In 1954 I went by train from NY to Chicago on a sleeper. From Chicago I went on the interurban line up to the Great Lakes Naval training station.
Years later we rode a train from Melbourne to Sydney. Never saw so many sheep ever. The Aussies were nice friendly folks.
In Mexico we took the train up to the top of the Copper Canyon. It was a nice train.
 
I have gone from Wiesbaden to Leipzig on a train. I was 9 years old, and my mother, sister, and I were going to visit my Oma and other relatives for the first time since my mother had escaped from East Germany 12 years earlier. The Red Cross met us at the border to let my mother know they would return my sister and I to our father if anything happened. Before we crossed the border, guards with guns boarded the train and checked everyone out. The visit went smoothly and we returned home without mishap.
 
Bretrick said:
I have taken the Indian Pacific from Perth to Melbourne 3 times.
A distance of 3400km one way.
The trip takes 54 hours, 3 nights
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I plan on taking this train as part of a trip to Australia. My brother lived there in the 80’s but I have never been. I have the time and resources to do it now.
 
JBR said:
What a lot of discourteous, indecent squaddies! (Whatever squaddies are (I haven't the foggiest).🤔😟
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Squaddies is the slang term for soldiers in the British Army, which is kind of odd, given that the term "squad " is NOT used in British military units. The basic unit in a British Army infantry unit is The Section, a group of ten soldiers lead by usually a Corporal, or a senior Private. 4 sections make a platoon, 4 platoons make a company, and 4 or 5 companies form a Battalion. Three infantry Battalions make up an infantry Brigade. And before the Americans chime in, I know this isn't how your military is set up. I am referring to British and Commonwealth military forces. JIM.
 
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The longest train ride we have been on is the Durango to Silverton (Colorado) narrow gauge steam train. It is very scenic traveling thru the mountains. Travel time is something like 3.5 hours each way with a 2 hour stop in Silverton for lunch and sight seeing.
 
Kadee said:
Perth to Adelaide DH said he’d like to do the trip again ….well he’s very welcome but I’d never do the again.
Part way through the trip we arrived in a very small railway town in the middle of nowhere called Cook ..well you most certainly COOK …it was 46 c ~ 114f and we was stopped there for 2 hours ..no air con while trains stopped
🥵🥵🥵…
Then 2 hours stop at 2 am in Kalgoorlie (gold mining outback Wild West town )
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I did this trip a few times in 1970/71. I remember Cook as one of the bigger towns along the way. And that is saying something. A main street (one and only) and a few houses..

As for Sydney to Melbourne, about the same era, it was hard seats and a cold compartment. I daresay things have changed.

I guess that I do like looking at trains. Travelling on them is perhaps another thing...
 
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I believe you can’t get the “Red sleeper “ seats now days @Ted51 you have to pay for cabin

The prices have risen quite a bit and this is for the low season (per person ) when it’s
the cheaper time of the year to travel by train ….
OMG we could drive from Adelaide to Perth in 4 days much cheaper than those prices…

It’s about 3.000 kms by road

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Ted51 said:
Hello Kadee. Those prices are steep. I am just glad my employer was paying. :)
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Good to have another Aussie join us @Ted51 ..I spent the first 25 years of my life in NSW , moved to S. A in 1971 .

We traveled through Sydney earlier this year on our way home from Coolangatta ( QLD) traveled Over the bridge by sheer luck we picked the correct lane

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From Brussels to Rome at Christmas time. Last minute trip. The planes were full, so I took the train at night. Sleeping carts were not available, so I sat there for 13 hrs in an overheated compartment.
 
Bretrick said:
Melbourne to Sydney by train is 11 1/2 hours.
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I have done that one a few times. The first time we had to change trains about halfway, in Albury. The railway gauge in Victoria, wherein is Melbourne, was wider than in New South Wales (Sydney). Different now thankfully. A few more times in a train called the Spirit of Progress. A misnomer if ever there was one. Cold, old and uncomfortable.

There was another train, at least back then, which I think was more luxurious. The Southern Aurora. Sleepers I recall, though I never did get to experience it. I suspect my employers were too tight to pay. :unsure:
 

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