"America as a country except for parts of it don't embrace rails as we used to"<br><br>why?<br><br>easy to answer. it is not because its cheaper. its because its faster to travel by air then rail or car. want proof? take NYC to LA for instance. by train and car it will take you roughly 2 days and 13 hours. by plane it will take you 6 hours. by train I found for as little as $291, by car will cost almost $2000, by plane I found for as cheap as $809. its way cheaper to go by train than plane but way faster to go by plane than train. our country is so big that we want the fastest way to get there no matter what the price. by the end of the 1700s it took 6 months to cross the country. by the end of the 1800s it took 6 days by train. by the end of the 1900s it was down to 6 hours bt plane. I am guessing just by going at that rate that by the end of the 2000s it will be down to about 6 minutes.,(reply>), @Filipe Saramago well you could exect that trains have kept up with the times. they are good for short city to city trips. and that they haul more amounts of cargo on 1 trip than a truck or car but its like i said, the US is over 3000 miles from east to west. in those times i told you about it took 6 motnhs to croos the US in the 1700s, in the 1800s it was down to about 6 days and with planes in the 1900s it went down to 6 hours. so would you want to be stuck in a car, truck or tain seat for 6 days, or 6 hours when you can fly at 1/10th the overall cost?,(reply>), You could shorten that by saying that trains in the US havent kept up with the times and people in the US are uneducated and wasteful