“Blue Train,” I said, and the guard waved us through. We pulled up to a blue carpet next to the central train station in Cape Town, South Africa, where two butlers in blue vests and white gloves ...

I recently took the 16-hour overnight train from Warsaw to Kyiv for a reporting trip. The 'Kyiv Express' was loud and bumpy but surprisingly cozy. This is what the long journey was like. WARSAW, ...