Seven train trips through the Americas, from Canada to Peru
- Swap traffic jams for spectacular scenery on routes that vary from a two-day journey on Canada’s luxurious Skeena Train to a 48km loop around tiny St Kitts
- Historic lines include the Durango to Silverton railway, which featured in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
From luxurious tourist trains to sugar-cane railways, heritage steam lines and do-it-yourself Caribbean itineraries, travelling by train means swapping traffic jams for spectacular scenery and airport departure terminals for a cleaner, greener way of getting from A to B.
Here are seven classic railway journeys that span the Americas.
The journey takes passengers deep into spectacular wilderness, a region of snow-capped mountains, high plateaus and thick forest punctuated by logging towns, sawmill settlements and historic fur-trading posts.
The two-day, 20-hour trip involves an overnight stop in Prince George so sightseers get to experience the entire route in daylight. During the summer there’s an option of paying extra for a seat in the panoramic dome car, where floor-to-ceiling windows offer even better odds of glimpsing black bears, moose, white-tailed deer and bald eagles, not forgetting all those luminous lakes teeming with salmon.
