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Virginia Museum of
Transportation, Roanoke
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Rail travel, of course, is one of the most
relaxing and comfortable ways of getting
★ Getting around
to – and around – the Capital Region.
Washington, DC is made all
the easier with a Metrorail
former N&W Railway passenger station, iconic black-and-white images
Pass ($7.80). One-day
capture the end of the steam era.
passes (wmata.com) give
Rail travel, of course, is one of the most relaxing and comfortable
unlimited Metrorail travel on
ways of getting to – and around – the Capital Region. Amtrak (Amtrak.
weekdays after 9.30am or all
com) operates the Northeast Regional route, which brings visitors several
day on Saturdays, Sundays
Metro
subway
times a day from Boston and New York to Baltimore and Washington,
and federal holidays.
DC, and onwards to Newport News in the south-east corner of Virginia,
Alternatively, visitors can buy
with stops in such places as Alexandria, Springfi eld, Richmond and
Metrorail farecards, for $10 or $20, which can be recharged at
Williamsburg.
any Metrorail station.
Alternatively, the Capitol Limited runs west from Washington, DC en
★ Armed with a Metrorail pass, visitors have easy access to
route to Chicago. After leaving quaint ‘old town’ Gaithersburg, the train
Capitol Hill, the White House, the museums of the Smithsonian
journeys through beautiful Maryland countryside to the Point of Rocks
and Arlington Cemetery, as well as Downtown and Foggy
tunnel and into the forests of the Allegheny Mountains. Departing from
Bottom/Georgetown.
the railroad town of Brunswick, the Capitol Limited heads for historic
★
Harper’s Ferry, where, in 1859, a US arsenal was raided by abolitionist
The Beaux Arts-style Union Station in DC (unionstationdc.
John Brown, whose action was reckoned to be the catalyst for the
com) is one of the capital’s top attractions and was the largest
American Civil War.
train station in the world when it was completed in 1908. Today,
T_h e Cardinal, which stops at Washington, DC after it leaves New
it is the most-visited destination in Washington, DC and the
York, sees more of Virginia, passing through areas such as Civil War battle
home base for Amtrak (Amtrak.com).
site Manassas and Charlottesville – where Monticello, T_h omas Jeff erson’s
★ In Maryland, the MARC (Maryland Area Regional Commuter,
home, is located – before fi lling the train’s windows with breathtaking
mtamaryland.com) train service is a commuter system
views of the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Shenandoah Valley on its
operating on three lines that connect Harford County, Baltimore,
way to Chicago.
Brunswick and Frederick with Washington, DC. Bear in mind
the MARC train operates on weekdays only, with limited service
The Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad Museum,
on select holidays. The Brunswick and Camden lines run during
Baltimore
morning and evening rush hours only, but there is an all-day and
late-evening service on the Penn Line.
★ The Virginia Railway Express (VRE, vre.org) provides
a commuter rail service from Monday to Friday from
Fredericksburg and Manassas in Northern Virginia to Alexandria,
Crystal City, and downtown Washington, DC along the I-66 and
I-95 highway corridors.
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