I'm a California native and a former resident of the Monterey Bay area south of San Francisco. But somehow, in all my years in the Golden State before I headed east for New York, I'd never made it up ...

Tucked into the heart of western North Carolina, the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad turns a simple ride into a full-on ...

The singing started early on. As the 112-year-old steam locomotive rumbled out of its berth at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Southeast Portland, St. Nick launched into a song about himself – ...