Space Travel for the Rich

Earl Colby Pottinger wrote:
Right, as soon as I read your message, I remembered how much nicer for the
rich that long distance travel by train would be compared all other modes
available in the 19'th century.

Not just the Rich. Compare NYC to Fargo ND, 3 days in an immigrant
car (a *very* basic coach, some of which might have once been boxcars)
versus a week in a wagon train, *if* you could buy the wagon and some
oxen to pull it, and *buy* the place in the wagon train, and you could
get from NYC to St Louis (most likely a wagon and some oxen to get to
the Ohio River, and then a raft down the Ohio).

Some of the immigrant car fares were paid by the railroad itself, as a
way of having customers for freight in Fargo ND.

/dps