Roots on the Rails

Starting to update the webpage with photos from recent trips. 2024 trips are being planned by Sarah…. Very exciting stuff coming up! #rootsontherails #musictravel #jonlangford

Our wonderful tour guide and percussion badass Carol Steele with her friend, the cigar maestro (what’s the feminine of ‘maestro’? Maestress?) at Havana’s Hotel Nacional. We have one space available for our April 1-8 trip, and a couple more for April 18-24. You should join us.

Leslie Ragan 20th CENTURY LIMITED print for the New York Central Railroad. #waterlevelroute #youcansleep #newyorkcentral #leslieragan #henrydreyfuss

When @amtrak doesn’t clean the windows, it turns everything into a painting. On board the #texaseagle , heading north out of St. Louis.

Greetings from me ‘n @bettysoo from our sleeper room on board the mighty @amtrak Texas Eagle! #texaseagle #flexmealsagain #pastanmeatballs

Yes, it is a freight train, but it is a 70 year old Alco RS-1, and it is in Bellows Falls, VT, and it is in actual revenue freight service, and it is a beautiful photo by our friend Kevin at @steelwheelsphoto - Beautiful work, Kevin! #alcors1 #alco #vintagerails #ilovebellowsfalls

On top of old Donner / All covered in snow / I swear on my honor / The trains will not go. Amtrak has had to cancel the CALIFORNIA ZEPHYR both directions between Sacramento and Reno due to record snows over Donner Pass! #donnerparty #renofuntrain #lotsasnow

We're headed back to Havana!!! Join us for one of THREE small group trips we have planned for March and April of 2022 and enjoy a totally immersive exploration of this fascinating city and her people!! Ten guests per group with carefully curated experiences that introduce you to parts of the city, its history, and the diversity of Cuban culture that most tourists miss. March 1 -8, 2022 April 1-8, 2022 April 18 - 25, 2022 /upcoming-trips-adventures-in-havana-2022. #havana #musictourcuba #carolinaspeople

Our very own Junior Conductor. @amtrak #misssunshine

During our recent Monhegan ‘Roots on the Rocks’ trip, none other than the finest sommelier Iowa has ever produced, was our attentive and exemplary hostess. @theentertainher #rootsontherocks #morewherethatcamefrom

Dom Flemons will be on this fall’s #rootsontherails #cowboytrain ….. Dominique Flemons (born August 30, 1982) is an American old-time music, Piedmont blues, and neotraditional country multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter. He is a proficient player of the banjo, fife, guitar, harmonica, percussion, quills, and rhythm bones. He is known as "The American Songster" as his repertoire of music spans nearly a century of American folklore, ballads, and tunes. He has performed with Mike Seeger, Joe Thompson, Martin Simpson, Boo Hanks, Taj Mahal, Old Crow Medicine Show, Guy Davis, and The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band. The man does not mess around. Learn more: /2019/01/05/682318409/dom-flemons-presents-a-new-image-of-the-american-cowboy

The ‘Jawn Henry’ steam turbine locomotive the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad had built for its stillborn streamliner ‘The Chessie’ which was to run daily between Washington and Cincinnati but was cancelled before it ever turned a wheel. #tragicbeauty #steamturbine #tempisfugit