Chartered train trips tend to conjure images of flag bunting, stump speeches and glad-handing politicians. But a cross-country whistle-stop tour now being planned as a kind of rolling public art project by the artist Doug Aitken might give train travel considerably more cultural cachet. Mr. Aitken, who works in Los Angeles and whose pieces in video and film often explore speed and people in transit, has organized a three-week journey from New York to San Francisco, with 10 stops in between, called “Station to Station: a Nomadic Happening,” which will include not only shows by visual artists but also music, poetry and food. The train will travel from New York to Pittsburgh on Sept. 8 and then...
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