1.  Apart from learning something about front-end loaded deals and arbitrageurs Maxim found it restored his faith in American trains.

2.  Now the River Cafe could attract cooks who wanted to jump on the American express train.

3.  Perhaps the only way to save American train travel is by dismantling the Amtrak leviathan.

4.  The most modern American train, the punctuality-challenged Acela Express, which runs between Boston and Washington, shares antiquated track with conventional passenger and freight trains.

5.  Union Pacific is the American train line with the most traffic from Mexico, and Laredo is its busiest crossing.

6.  An American train with similar cargo is scheduled to join in later Saturday in northern Bosnia.

7.  The Broadway Limited and some other famous American trains are nearing the end of long runs that stretched across much of this century.