You step aboard and it "oscillates" for a few seconds, getting the feel of you, and then it's fully cruise-able, at 6 mph in "learning mode, " and 12.5 mph flat-out.

FORBES: A Standing Ovation

But there is something about a small town that has never gone a single day, in almost 150 years, without a passenger train pulling in and pausing to see if anyone would like to step out onto the streets of Garden City, or if anyone from Garden City would like to climb aboard and join the other cross-continental travelers...

CNN: A Kansas town tries to keep the train coming through