Traveling from Los Angeles to San Francisco for the New Year’s celebration 2016. Watch the 10 hours ride on the train in around 10 minutes.
And almost 80 years later, American diesel electric passenger locomotives go the same speed as the EMD F's and E's from the 1940's. Oh well, at least they're air conditioned now. For an European, it becomes a fascinating experience - that is exactly how train travel used to be 40 years ago in Europe... comparatively a bit slow.