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None of us has the ability to foresee the future and in the time span you mention, I won´t be around anymore. I don´t think freight trains will look much different from today´s. The biggest change happened about 30 years ago with the introduction of the shipping container. Truck design will change, to make them less noisy maybe. There will be less traffic, as people will print a lot of the stuff they buy these days, eliminating the need of shipping the stuff - maybe. Passengers trains will be a different story. Rail traffic might increase as individual travel is likely to decrease. Trains will continue to go faster, but there are limits to which extent that will be possible. Speeds beyond 450 kph are technically possible, but not viable, at least not in Europe. I am not sure about the US, though. Unless there is a dramatic change in attitude within the next, say, 5 to 10 years, long distance passenger trains will either be extinct or not very much different from today.
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