When train travel was fairly new, somehow the idea took hold that r...  ...railway grew more popular in the 1850s and 1860s, trains allowed travelers to move about with unprecedented speed and effici...  ...ented speed and efficiency, cutting the length of *strong class="mat...

Thirty-seven years ago, I took a train trip from Kansas City to Oklahoma City (and back)...  ...y (and back) and decided that was the best way to travel ever. Sadly, there are fewer passenger trains and routes now, so fewer people ride, and that me...  ...o. But we have pict...