&gt; Rail is pretty limited by the huge size of our country<p>Quite the contrary, the US is better suited for rail than the rest of the world, at least for cross-country moving of goods (one single area of law, no customs crap to deal with, the only thing I&#x27;m not sure is signalling and interoperability of locomotives on rail systems in different states).<p>Trains are perfect for inter-city travel, the first&#x2F;last mile should be handled with trucks unless the facility is so large that it can source or sink a huge number of trains (e.g. automobile, steel factories, coal mines, fossil power plants).