Ride the 'City of New Orleans' across the heartland to Memphis.(Going Places)

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Byline: Mike Michaelson When it comes to train vs. plane, Amtrak might have caught a bad rap. With a snowstorm blanketing Chicago, flights were being canceled across the board, roads to airports slippery and slow. Yet the storied "City of New Orleans" pulled out precisely on time at 8 p.m., with arrival at Memphis scheduled for 6:27 a.m.

Memphis is an ideal destination for late winter and spring. Go in summer when heat and humidity are high and the two most important words in your vocabulary may be "air conditioning." Named for its Egyptian sister city on the Nile, Memphis is an enigmatic destination. It not only is a center of commerce that is headquarters of FedEx and a national leader in high-tech start-ups, but also houses such quirky venues as the A....