Meet your tour leader:
Karl ZimmermannKarl Zimmermann has ridden trains on six continents and has told the story of those travels widely. He work has appeared in print in newspaper travel sections hundreds of times in the past 35 years, and in magazines nearly as often. While railroads have been his greatest journalistic interest, he has also written frequently about ships and steamboats; about baseball, particularly the minor leagues; and about the visible remnants of vanished industries and ways of life.
Zimmermann has served as lecturer on the American Orient Express (now called GrandLuxe Rail Journeys) and as study leader on Smithsonian Associates' rail tours. He has written or co-authored 20 books, many on the subject of trains:
- CZ: The Story of the California Zephyr
- The Milwaukee Road Under Wire
- Erie Lackawanna East
- The Remarkable GG1
- A Decade of D&H
- Paradise Regained: A South African Steam Diary
- Amtrak at Milepost 10
- The Western Maryland Railway: Fireballs and Black Diamonds (with Roger Cook)
- Ed Nowak's New York Central (with Ed Nowak)
- Santa Fe Streamliners: The Chiefs and Their Tribesmen
- Lake Michigan's Railroad Car Ferries
- A Pictorial History of North American Railroads (with Walter Gray; others)
- Domeliners: Yesterday's Trains of Tomorrow
- Magnetic North: Canadian Steam in Twilight (with Roger Cook)
- A Gude to Trains (with David Jackson; others)
- 20th Century Limited
- Steam Locomotives: Whistling, Chugging, Smoking Iron Horses of the Past
- Burlington's Zephyrs
- All Aboard! Passenger Trains Around The World
- Steamboats: Lakers, Ferries, and Majestic Paddle-Wheelers
Magazine publications, besides The International Railway Traveler, include: Travel & Leisure, Americana, Cruise Travel, Bon Apetit, Physicians' Travel & Meeting Guide, Trains magazine, Passenger Train Journal, Locomotive & Railway Preservation, Railfan and Railroad, Amtrak Express, Outdoor Life and Western Outdoors.Zimmermann is a frequent contributor to the travel sections of newspapers across the country. These have included The New York Times, Washington Post, Toronto Globe & Mail, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, New York Post, Boston Herald, Baltimore Sun, Buffalo News, Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, Orlando Sentinel, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Akron Beacon-Journal, Miami Herald, Cleveland Plain Dealer and Chicago Sun-Times. Karl is also an accomplished photographer, with many hundreds of his photographs in print -- in both his own books and others, and in many of the magazines and newspapers listed above.
Karl is currently working on a book about the history of the American Orient Express/GrandLuxe Express. He will host groups of IRT travelers on two GrandLuxe tours in 2007: Northwest & Rockies (July 8-16) and Rockies, Sierras and Napa (Sept. 22-28). He will also host our group on the Sierra Madre Express in February, 2007.
Click here to visit Karl Zimmermann's website.
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