There’s something melodic about watching the sun rise over a rural stillness broken only by the rhythms of steel wheels on tracks. In this case, being aboard a train at all owed more to politics than poetry. So I eliminated the risk of a missed flight and booked the train overnight and into game day across a 650-mile route. Who ever ponders the conveniences of that 20th century innovation, the airplane, that makes 21st century hustle possible? My decision had taken me further back, to the 19th century and another defining innovation: the long-distance train.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 30, 2026 14:32 UTC