Amtrak rider-in-chief Biden embarks on Rust Belt train tour

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 “conversat