The Bernina Express is the most spectacular Swiss Alpine ride a four-hour narrow-gauge journey from Chur in Switzerland to Tirano in Italy on the 120-year-old Unesco-listed Rhatische Bahn.
The 90-mile route includes 55 tunnels and 196 bridges, gradients as steep as 1 in 7 and a summit at Ospizio Bernina 7,391 feet above sea level.
The Northern Explorer from Kiwirail in New Zealand is from Auckland to Wellington, a 12-hour daytime run over the historic North Island Main Trunk Railway, the main line linking New Zealand's economic and political capitals.
The Zephyr has gleaming stainless-steel cars leave Chicago Union Station every afternoon at 2pm on an epic two-night 2,400-mile journey to San Francisco.
The train rumbles over the Mississippi from Illinois into Iowa and heads west across the vast open Nebraska farmland.
On its four night journey the train crosses the great Canadian shield from Toronto to just east of Winnipeg, a surprisingly beautiful and sparsely-populated area of forest, lakes and rocky outcrops.
The Belgrade to Bar train is a 296-mile, low cost, 11-hour ride from the Serbian capital to Bar on the Adriatic over a breath-taking railway completed in 1976 and opened by President Tito of Yugoslavia.
South of the Montenegrin border the train clings to rugged grey mountainsides hundreds of metres above narrow valleys.
The Caledonian Sleeper travels from London Euston on a busy six-track main line, with private sleepers, some with private shower and double bed, and a club car. Set off in the evening and wake to mountain streams, oak trees and deer it winds its way on the final leg at 40mph on the lonely single track to Fort William.