By Tanner Morrow This summer, the McConnell Center sponsored my class on a long trip through Italy. Unexpectedly, one of my favorite parts was watching and riding the passenger trains. Connect all cities and towns with fast, cheap, reliable transportation accessible to everyone. I long to see passenger trains of that caliber return to Kentucky, and advocate for it to be so daily. There are hundreds of practical reasons we need passenger trains in our country, but one of my favorite reasons is nostalgia. The practical reasons are only an internet search away, but nostalgia is a hard emotion to convey. I am too young to remember an extensive passenger railroad in Kentucky, so I have relied on the memories of others, through records and conversations, to gain a sense of nostalgia all my own. Kentucky does have a few active passenger railway stations still in use. Still, they are situated in small towns in far Eastern and Western Kentucky and either hardly have service or are dedicate...
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