What is Rail Travel Adventures?
Welcome to the new Rail Travel
Adventures preview pages! Rail Travel Adventures was created in 2010
by Carl Fowler, the founder of Rail Travel Center Tours. Mr. Fowler
"retires" at the end of the Rail Travel Center Grand Finale 2010
season, but plans to offer 3-4 tours annually through Rail Travel
Adventures that he will design and escort. Bookings are handled through
our partners at Gateway Travel in Brattleboro, VT.
►The first Rail Travel
Adventures program is
SPRINGTIME IN THE ALPS, the Swiss Rail
Tour, from April 15-29, 2011.
►The
first USA Rail Travel Adventure tour will be July 18-29, 2011,
COLORADO BY RAIL.
► The
2011 Rail Travel Adventures autumn tour is the October 3-13, 2011
Grand Fall Tour: New Hampshire and
Vermont.
We try to make our tour
descriptions as complete as possible so you can determine if a program
is of interest to you, but we do not take bookings on-line. We want
you to talk to a real person when you book a Rail Travel Adventures
tour!
►All reservations for Rail
Travel Adventures are taken by our partners at Gateway Travel in
Brattleboro, Vermont.
►Their toll-free
number, 1-800-639-3706, operates everywhere in the U.S.A. From outside
the U.S.A. the toll number is 1-802-254-8844. Gateway's mailing
address is Gateway Travel, 266 Canal Street, Brattleboro, VT 05301.
For questions regarding the 2010 Rail Travel
Center program please call toll-free 1 (800) 458-5394 anywhere in
the USA and Canada, or (toll) 1 (802) 387-5812 from anywhere.
You can also send us an E Mail
with any questions about the new Rail Travel Adventures tours
and we will get back to you as soon as possible. Include your phone
number if you'd like us to call back.
►And now for some
information about us: Rail Travel Adventures is a dba of a Vermont
limited liability company, CHF Rail Consulting LLC. Carl Fowler is the
owner/manager. Mr. Fowler has been planning, organizing and escorting
tours by train worldwide for the last 29 years. He was the Vice
President/General Manager of Rail Travel Center Tours from 1982 to
2010. We are a member of the American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA)
and carry full tour operator liability and errors and omissions
Insurance coverage.
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►Escorted
tours usually have a minimum of ten and a maximum of forty
participants. Our
philosophy of touring with fewer participants than many other tour
companies require has allowed us to operate nearly 90% of our
advertised departures in the last ten years. This is very important
when it’s your vacation!
►We
do not offer the same escorted tour program each year.
Therefore, if you see something of interest, consider booking it now
rather than being disappointed if it isn’t offered next year. We
specialize in rail products, and these systems are at the mercy of
governments and the vagaries of man and nature. Routes are
discontinued (such as British Columbia Rail), liability insurance
skyrockets and forces preservation railroads to cease operations, and
sometimes even Mother Nature gets into the act (such as taking down
part of the Kinzua Viaduct with a tornado) and the ride is gone,
perhaps forever.
►As much as possible, we use trains for long travel distances and
motor coaches for connections and local sightseeing. Other forms
of transportation such as boats, ferries and trolleys, may be used to
vary the travel experience. Tours depart from a variety of locations,
depending on the tour destination. Connecting travel to and from our
tours is not included in the tour prices, as our clients live all over
the U. S. and in other countries.
►Our
preference is to feature interesting historic hotels and inns for
multi-night stays.
Beautiful scenery, history, classic sightseeing, restaurants
specializing in regional foods, museums, and nature all feature in our
tours. We refer to this as touring “with a sense of place”. At
the end of one of our tours, we want our clients to feel they really
have been somewhere “not just like home”.
►As the Cunard Line and the New York Central used to say, “Getting
There is Half the Fun!”
We hope to have the opportunity to meet you soon on one of our
programs! All aboard!
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