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 Adventures Tours. Mr. Fowler "retired" at the end of the Rail Travel Adventures 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.
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.
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 Adventures 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.
Read Carl
Fowler's Essay "Trains of Memory"
►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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