the scenic route
During my visit to China, high-speed rail was one of the most visible expressionsof modernization, progress, and technology. In California, taking the Amtrak was a reprieve from it.
Jasmine Sun • the scenic route
Ben Cuan added
If you want to see what this nation is all about, you have to ride the rails. Look outside as you speed through, and you’ll find the true face of America. It was a joke, then, from the start. There was only darkness outside the windows on her journeys, and only ever would be darkness.
Colson Whitehead • The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
sari added
The connection of New York to Philadelphia by rail in 1834, for example, reduced the journey time between America’s two largest cities from two days to five hours.
Tom Standage • A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
The construction of America’s system of railroads is a complex and nuanced story full of crimes against Native Americans, the exploitation of Asian labor and the general pillaging of the countryside.
Charles Marohn • A World Class Transportation System: Transportation Finance for a New Economy
MargaretC added
Get my driving licence so I can drive across the USA. They don't have buses or trains like we have in Europe!