Editor’s note: Doug Anderson is a retired IBM programer and planner who has been riding the rails for years. He traveled on the Trans-Siberian Express Aug. 10-24, 2006. That was the reply to the ...
A 1973 train trip through Siberia to Moscow by rock legend David Bowie is now the subject of a museum exhibition. “David Bowie in the Soviet Union” at California’s Wende Museum features his friend ...
Editor’s Note: This story was originally published in May 2024. It was republished in February 2025 to mark the launch of CNN’s Chance Encounters podcast Marie-Claire Martineau couldn’t stop thinking ...
Former Tucsonan Tom Zoellner’s latest book is Train: Riding the Rails That Created the Modern World—from the Trans-Siberian to the Southwest Chief. Zoellner told the Weekly that he set out “to create ...