I ordered something from Amazon. It was shipped from a "marketplace" seller that turns out to be in RI. For whatever reason, they shipped by FedEx last Friday, so I really don't ever expect to see it, let alone this week as "promised." But anyway, circumstantial evidence suggests that it went on a train just outside of Harrisburg PA on Saturday night local time, and is still on one. FedEx uses long-distance trains?

If true, this is another example of: you can book a package on a train from the east coast to the west, directly, but you have to change in Chicago on Amtrak.

Circumstantial evidence: the "in transit" reporting points in the tracking are all along main railroad lines starting in PA, pretty far away from freeways, and at least two of them (Edgerton KS and Belen NM) are large BNSF yards or intermodal sites. So ... assuming it reaches California tomorrow night, where does it get off the train and hit the road again? Barstow? San Berdoo? Bakersfield? Stockton? As I say, arrival indeterminate (it's FedEx after all, and I should be glad it's still moving in the right general direction, after previous episodes where something just vanished in a Chicago warehouse for a week).

Just Googlefanning...with a little OpenRailwayMap to make things a little clearer.