Introduction Traveling by rail can be a fun, rewarding, exciting, and inexpensive experience. There are lots of Reasons to Travel by Rail. But it’s different in many ways from air or car travel. Read on to learn all about your trip. In the United States, traveling between cities almost always means taking an Amtrak train. Amtrak is the nation’s passenger rail service that began in the early 1970s. Amtrak operates a wide variety of services: small connection trains, long trains that cross ...