&gt; 2) freight trains don&#x27;t get priority over passenger trains<p>Freight trains get priority here and it still doesn&#x27;t make sense to ship by train. Rail is pretty limited by the huge size of our country, and they need to be able to ship to tiny random stores all over the place. It makes more sense to send one truck that can stop anywhere there&#x27;s a road than send it out via train and then transfer to a local truck, which might be sitting unused the rest of the time.