When do I book my train to Hawaii?
COVID train to Wuhan?
What is this infatuation with rail transportation? When originally conceived in the early 19th Century, it was a quicker and more efficient method of transportation than horseback or mule team transport, but technological progress has far outpaced those first primitive attempts to accelerate human communications and physical movement. In a highly urbanized environment, light rail may make some sense, to move people through highly congested corridors, but for much of the country, a fine, wide, hard-surfaced roadway network with individually controlled vehicles is far more efficient use of resources and time than rail transport over long distances.
That is what aircraft are for. Or suborbital launches that skirt the lower edges of outer space.
And as for that train to Hawaii - the Chinese have proposed a deep tunnel extending below the ocean floor for intercontinental travel. The engineering problems would be horrendous.
Not to mention the expense.
As with the train to Alaska it will have to be solar or wind powered.