Daniel Shellenbarger’s Reviews > Night Train to Rigel > Status Update

ah, Space Railways, I've seen them done a few times and honestly, I can't say I've ever found it more than "ok". I think the real problem is the basic dichotomy that the idea seems silly but the presentation is often dead serious. I have this suspicion that doing this sort of thing in a steampunk setting might work a lot better as the inherent rule-of-cool anachronism of steampunk makes it ok to mix silly and serious