Tracking the World's 10 Best Train Experiences OWEN HARDY, Hardy is editor and publisher of The International Railway Traveler, a rail travel buff's newsletter based in Louisville, Ky. Fellow editors Anthony Perl and Zane Katsikis also contributed to this story.
Rail Passes for Eastern Europe MARVIN L. SALTZMAN, Saltzman , who lives in Malibu , is co-author, with Kathryn Turpin, of the 21st (1991) edition of "Eurail Guide--How to Travel Europe and All the World by Train."
The Stepford Writers CHRIS ALTACRUISE, Altacruise is the pseudonym of a veteran of almost five years of workshops at several prestigious MFA programs. A version of this article, a version of which appeared in Lingua Franca, The Review of Academic Life.