Praise for "Train: " "Tom Zoellner's writing is never less than engaging; in Train "he has made himself a veritable Walt Whitman of rail travel. It's a great read." --Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer prize-winning author of "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" "Train "is such a pleasure to read, elegant, deeply informed and smart, full of knowledge-bearing sentences, and prose so companionable and rich in insight that it is as if its author were at your shoulder, taking you along with him. What an enjoyable journey. I will never hear the far off moan of a train in the night without thinking of it, and I know of no higher praise one can give a book. Tom Zoellner is quickly making himself a reputation as a man of wide and eclectic interests, and oh, my! Can he write!" --Richard Bausch "An absorbing and lively reflection on an enduring marvel of modern industrial technology."--"Booklist "

Tom Zoellner is the author of four previous nonfiction books, including "Uranium," winner of the 2011 American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award. He is an Associate Professor at Chapman University and lives in downtown Los Angeles.