1. Travel by Rail Standard 3 Objective 2
Check the video links to make sure everything is working properly before you use. May also want to add more questions that coincide with the videos to the study guide.

2. Train HISTORY Harvey Houses Fred Harvey set up at each stop
Provided fresh food and clean linens to passengers
Railway standard time
Put into effect by William F. Allen
Influenced our modern ideas of time
Frederick Henry Harvey was an entrepreneur who developed theHarvey House lunch rooms, restaurants, souvenir shops, and hotels, which served rail passengers on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, the Gulf Coast and Santa Fe Railway, the Kansas Pacific Railway, the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway, and the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis. 
Standardization of time:

3. Pullman Car

4. Pullman Car – A detour back through time

5. Pullman Car
Individual sleeping compartments partitioned by heavy green curtains
2 seats facing each other for sitting
Seats fold down into a bed
President Abraham Lincoln made his final ride in a Pullman Car

6. Train Info
Gasoline Engine invention contributed to demise of train travel
Amtrak formed by federal government in 1970 to take over passenger services from the railroads
Amtrak’s Official Name – The National Railroad Passenger Corporation. The two types of passenger service are:
Commuter Trains
Intercity Trains

7. Benefits of Riding a Train
Scenery
Alternative for those afraid to fly
Convenient center-city stations
Space for self & possessions
Freedom of movement
Fewer weather delays
Lower costs for unreserved day coach verses air travel
Click to watch America by Rail 12 min.

8. Train Traffic IN THE U.S.
Less than 1% of long distance passenger traffic ride the rails
Northeast Corridor - Boston, New York City, and Washington D.C. (750,000 people per day)

9. Train Traffic IN THE US
Acela Express – Boston to Washington D.C. – 6 ½ hours
Metroliner – Washington D.C. to New York City – 3 hours
8.5 Hours to drive from Boston to D.C.
AmTrack Acela 2013 Commercial- Click to play on YouTube

10. International Trains Canada’s Passenger Train – VIA Rail Canada
Europe’s Rails Click to watch: Riding the Rails, Travel by Train
InterCity (ICE)
EuroCity  cross-border train category within the European inter-city railnetwork
German Bahn Train: German Bahn Train
EuroCity: train category, inter-city rail

11. International Trains
TGV – 186 mph French: Train à Grande Vitesse, "high-speed train"
Eurailpass good for 27 countries
What is a EurailPass?
Eurail: Visit All Europe
Japan is known for its bullet trains
Maglev trains operate by magnetic levitation Click to watch Maglev Train video

12. Nostalgic Trains
Nostalgic Trains – Trains that operate on scenic routes using restored equipment with deluxe amenities and offering top-flight service Heber Valley Railroad