N o v e m b e r 2 0 1 7 4 9 Personalities from top: william lord; americaN-rail.com; detroit publishiNg D uring a shuttle to Washington D.C. in the mid 1980s, Maine bank- er Wayne Davis felt his life flash before his eyes. “As we landed, we blew a tire and began spin- ning.” He turns his hand in a slow circle. Every revolution “brought us closer and closer to the terminal.” Luckily, nobody was hurt on the plane, but by the time he de- bouched, he felt differently about his travel options. Calling back to his Maine office, he recounted his close call to the receptionist, who’d just returned herself to Boston from Washington, D.C. by train. Now there was a blast from the past. “I rode the train a lot when I worked in Per- sonnel in the Navy in the 1950s,” he says. “I was in uniform from 1954 to 1961.” This Dreamer After an alarming airborne incident, Wayne Davis was inspired to put Maine back on the railway map. olivia KostishevsKaya Gunn “All my friends thought I’d lost it. ‘Why are you doing this?’ they said.” 9 (Continued on page 98)