(Image: Supplied) Matt Rice, chief operating officer at Northern, said: "We hope the travel advice calendar will be useful for anyone on the move over Christmas ... as the train operator revealed ...

13, 2002. While the City by the Bay was inundated with rain in January 1952, its namesake, a crack streamliner from Chicago, was snowbound with 236 passengers and crew in the Sierra Nevada.

The Western United States is bracing for a relentless "storm train" that will bring heavy rain, mountain snow and potential travel disruptions throughout the Christmas holiday, according to ...