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This is an excellent analysis of why rail passenger service, outside of a few high density corridors, is not a viable competitor with the airplane and the car.  The brief case trade left the railroads for the airplane because it is a time machine.  And in business time is money.  The coach trade left the trains for the car because of the economics.  The future for rail passenger service is high density corridors of 100 to 350 miles.  The trains will have to be quick, dependable, frequent, safe, and economical.  Moreover, the stations will have to offer ample parking and the amenities that people normally associate with airports.  I live in Dallas, Texas.  Oklahoma City to San Antonio and Houston, as well as Dallas to Houston, are potentially viable passenger rail corridors.  They will be developed eventually, although probably not in my lifetime.  Long distance trains, which I love to ride, are an anachronism.  Only a tiny percentage of the traveling public uses them.  And they take the focus, as well as resources, away from the future of rail passenger service, which is the high density corridors.
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