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Something is stirring in America – and for once, it has nothing to do with politics. It is the unlikely image of a train, zipping across a vast landscape, conveying passengers from Departure Point A to Destination B with something akin to speed and purpose.
The USA has a long and noble association with the railway, but the classic emblem of the locomotive on Stateside soil is still the iron horses of the Wild West, thundering across Nevada, California and New Mexico – being chased by Apache warriors or masked bandits, depending on which John Wayne film you are watching. The modern Amtrak network, though it casts its tentacles across the nation, is not known for its velocity, and has long been out-performed by the airlines on journeys of high mileage.
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