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As much as I love trains, I have to reluctantly admit that, aside from a few short distance, high-density corridors, passenger rail travel is as obsolete as ocean-going luxury liners. Which is to say, obsolete as a means of transportation, but perfectly viable as a means of recreation and tourism. Air travel has too many technological advantages for trips beyond a couple of hundred miles, and car travel is so much more flexible for short trips. We keep talking about reforming Amtrak to provide routine NY-LA passenger service, but that's never going to happen. The airlines will always win that battle. What we ought to be thinking about is a) making those high-density short hauls viable, and b) encouraging tourist railways (which don't need and shouldn't get tax dollars). I'm sure that doesn't sit well with a bunch of folks, but it's the world as I see it.
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