The Rip Track

The Olympic Torch is on a Eurostar train today traveling from London to Paris.^[1] In scanning around the web for news of other train rides, it appears that the Torch Relay will ride the Qinghai-Tibet Railway (now the highest railway in the world) in June,^[2] and will also ride the Indian Pacific across Australia (a route that traverses the longest stretch of straight and level track in the world as it crosses the Nullarboor Plain) in July.^[3] What I don't see is any mention of rail travel over North America. I've seen photos of the 2002 relay car that Union Pacific built, and I got to see Canadian Pacific carry the torch through Wisconsin, but so far it doesn't look like any American railfans will get to see it on a train this year.