The best train journeys in the world have an intangible allure about them. Since the dawn of time, the romance of railways has seduced poets, spellbound novelists, and dealt directors the perfect hand ...

Bob Knoll had a one-track mind. A railroad track, that is. His fascination with trains began in infancy, when his mother put him in his stroller and wheeled him to a bridge in the Bavarian town where ...