LATROBE, Pa.: If America had an Amtrak rider-in-chief, Joe Biden would be it.
The former vice president, who estimates he’s logged more than 2.1 million miles riding the rails in his lifetime, added seven more hours to that total Wednesday as his campaign chartered a nine-car private train to tour parts of eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania key areas to pick up votes if he wants to flip the states from red to blue in November.
Biden spent much of the trip inside a roomy, window-lined conversation car” chatting with supporters he had picked up at stops along the way. He and his wife, Jill, also had their own all-glass space at the back of the train known as the president’s car. It’s an appropriate name considering the Democrat’s task at hand: to defeat President Donald Trump in November.
Biden forged a political identity around being an avid Amtrak rider. Starting around…