rail will come back as soon as the cancerous oil tycoons all die out and the stranglehold that the personal vehicle holds gets loosened. American's want to be alone when they travel, that needs to change fast.,(reply>), rail is still here, passenger and freight trains are still all over the place. where I live, in canada, at least in the town I live in, there's freight trains that go past, and we have not only GO Trains, but an LRT System that is part of the Public Transit system. And from what I've heard in the states (Literally heard, at my grandparents' house the train goes past multiple times a day, the horns are always a welcome sound) passenger rail is even more prevalent. Rail hasn't gone anywhere, there's just been other things introduced alongside it.