The classic train journeys

ROCKY MOUNTAINEER, CANADA
This train passes through in two days, the beautiful Canadian Rockies (Rockies). It travels by day, in order to admire canyons, rivers, valleys and glacial lakes. It starts from the coastal Vancouver. Then we enter the realm of Rockies rising from Jasper, Banff and Calgary until you reach the Alberta.
>> Destination: Canada
Fly low cost in Canada >>

Ghan, AUSTRALIA
The saga of the Ghan began in 1877, when the original railway line Adelaide-Alice Springs-Darwin was built in the wrong place. During its first century of life across a floodplain.

After the rains convoys often got bogged down in the outback. In 1980 he opened an alternative line that connects the temperate southern Australia with the tropical north.
>> Destination: Australia
Fly low cost in Australia >>

FERROCARRIL Pacific CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO
The Ferrocarril Chihuahua Pacifico has 36 bridges and 87 tunnels spread over 655 km of track. Connect the mountainous hinterland of northern Mexico with the Pacific coast, crossing the canyon with vertical walls, waterfalls and almost desert plains. There are two trains serving the route between Los Mochis and Chihuahua: the primera express (train first class) has a restaurant, a bar and reclining seats, and makes fewer stops clase of the economy.
>> Destination: Mexico
Fly low cost in Mexico >>

Outeniqua Choo-Tjoe, SOUTH AFRICA
In operation since 1928, the steam train chugs in no hurry. From Knysna chugs along the Indian Ocean coast, passing by the town of Wilderness, with its wide beaches, crossing the Bridge and Kaimans, panting, addresses the throat that leads to George. The journey there and back, takes about 7 hours and a half.
>> Destination: South Africa
Fly low cost in South Africa >>

EL Devils Nose, ECUADOR
Going south from Riobamba, the railroad known as El Nariz del Diablo (the Devil's Nose) connects to Alausí Sibambe. The construction work began in 1908 when they were dug, bends that would allow the train to cover almost 1,000 vertical meters that separate Sibambe Alausí, altitude 2607 m. The most daring face the Devil's Nose on the roof of the train. But the space between their sombrero and the time of the galleries is really poor.
>> Destination: Ecuador

http://www.lonelyplanetitalia.it/articoli/viaggi-treno-classici