Comment by thedogeye

America is just too big for trains. In europe you don't take a train between large countries. I tried to take a train from Madrid to Paris it was going to be like 11 hours while the flight was 2. Nobody does this. Trains are useful for within a country, which in the US is like traveling within a given state. Sure we could invest a lot in that. But the idea that people are going to cross the country on a train is idiotic.