I planned to go by train.

From A treasury of American anecdotes; sly, salty, shaggy stories of heroes and hellions, beguilers and buffoons, spellbinders and scapegoats, gagsters and gossips, from the grassroots and sidewalks of America by Benjamin Albert Botkin. 

A Boston woman . . . was planning her first trip to the West. The travel agent asked, “How would you like to go? By Buffalo?” “Why, really,” replied the lady, “I planned to go by train.”