Plan your trip with these links:

Travel Insurance: Protect your travel investment with the best, Travelex. It’s IRT’s preferred travel insurance supplier.

Foreign Currency:  Buy currency ahead of time with Travelex’s new My Travel Wallet. Travel with confidence, knowing you have local currency with you.

Books & Maps: Longitude Books is IRT’s preferred source for recommended reading for travelers, customized to destination.  Longitude is a great source for maps, too.

Phone services: The Globalphone card offers discounted rates on international calling.

Clothing & Accessories:  TravelSmith is our provider of choice for travel clothing and accessories. We're still wearing items that we purchased over 20 years ago. Owen loves his blue blazer, cargo pants and trench coat. Eleanor never leaves home without her socks and skirts.

Magellan’s, meanwhile, has been offering excellent travel supplies from clothing and accessories to luggage and appliances for years.

Luggage Delivery: Luggage Forward is an excellent way to ensure smooth sailing, from start to finish.

Satellite & Global Phones: Cellular Abroad - International Cell Phone Solutions. Cellular Abroad rents and sells phones of all types.

General railway links:

Railfan.net: By railfans, for railfans.

Visa Processing: A Briggs is our preferred visa supplier because of their excellent service and great cooperation.

Rail Passes: Rail Europe is the leading provider of European railpasses and point-to-point tickets.

U.S. State Department: Information about how to obtain a passport, visa forms and requirements, travel warnings and more.

CDC Health information: Health information on specific destinations, including recommended vaccinations.

U.S. Customs: Find out how much you are allowed to bring home duty free – before you leave.

Currency rates: Up-to-the minute exchange rates for currencies worldwide.

Karl Zimmermann: Website of one of IRT's most popular tour hosts. Mr. Zimmermann is also a talented rail author and photographer. Visit his website for a complete list of his books.