It's easy to meet a wide variety of people on trains. Meals in the dining car provide opportunities for conversation. On the long-distance trains, the observation and lounge car is a great place to meet people.
Train trips help you appreciate how big and varied our country is. You see scenic landscapes, farms, small towns and cities. You also see factories, mines, oil rigs, warehouses, railyards, ships and barges, which remind you of the things that need to be done every day to keep the country running.
Train travel helps you think about our country's history too. Railroads changed the United States from a country of small farms and small towns to an industrial nation that expanded across the continent. They employed hundreds of thousands of people and dominated the economy and public attention in the Nineteenth Century the way the automobile and technology companies have in later decades. They're still vitally important to the movement of goods and people today.
Train travel is relaxing, somewhat mesmerizing and a good way to get a different perspective on things. As the coffee cups say, “Amtrak: Change how you see the world.”
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