Cathal McGuinness is a recent college graduate from Dublin, Ireland. He has been writing short stories and articles from the age of 15. He was awarded the George Dempsey prize for English Prose ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As it turns out, the tale of Amerigo’s journey is fictional, and crafted exclusively for the narrative of The Children’s Train.

It's hard to exaggerate the role of the train in the American story or the romance of train travel, those iron horses galloping down tracks of steel. Why, then, has high-speed rail — so common in ...