And then a couple years ago they tore down the original building rebuilt it in the exact same spot made it into kind of a museum/restaurant but it doesn't have the same nostalgia or feel as the original did.
No I'm not 100% sure exactly what OS they're running or the specs on them but 154 gigs of RAM itself on a blade server itself is worth something. If you can I would throw a couple of instances of Linux on it you could use it as possibly a Plex server or something else like that.
10 hours only gets you 1/3 across the US. I drive that regularly. The US is huge, and so many places you could never get to in a train like you mention. Hell even any of the proposed train routes anywhere only touch the surface of anywhere in this country. If you live in a city, and never leave, it only occasionally travel to another major city, sure a train or a bus work, I spent 8 years without owning a car, I know more then most how limiting it is.
Just like broccoli.