10 to try: Epic railway journeys

USA Coast to Coast
Route New York-Washington-Chicago-Denver- Grand Junction-Durango-Flagstaff-Grand Canyon -Los Angeles-San Francisco.
Time needed 20-25 days.
In the early months of his presidency, President Obama told Americans how a new high-speed railway network would change travel in America; this marked a radical move away from the dominance of cars and planes. Ride from east to west like the cowboys who fought for the frontier on an odyssey through five of the nation’s most important cities, taking in the prairies of the Mid-West, the Rockies, Arizona, Monument Valley and the Grand Canyon.