European Railway website gets you to places on continent.
Many enthusiasts share a passion for everything related to railways.
You can find a list of every locomotive, rail car, or shunter rolling in every country from Albania to Yugoslavia, and get the specifications for each. As a US citizen, I am deprived of that kind of service that is swift enough to compete with the airlines. We have the new Acela service that runs from Boston through New York to Washington, D.C and back. Good train service is an oxymoron for us in North America. I yearn for the ability to go from city center to city center without going near an airport where I must stuff myself in an aluminum tube with less seat space than a 6 year old child gets at a school desk.