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 #1536777  by Gilbert B Norman
 
"We've all heard of him here", but look who's "going mainstream" with this article in Today's New York Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/trav ... ravel.html

Fair Use:
Train travel is going through a bit of a renaissance as people reconsider the carbon emissions squashed seating and increasing fees of flying. The man with a front-row seat to the rail resurgence is Mark Smith, the founder of the train travel website The Man in Seat 61. His site has timetables, maps, reviews, booking details and everything else needed to plan train (and even some ferry) trips in more than 100 countries.