[alexander_busek]

But a saboteur can attack the rails at any stage of the journey or even launch a missile at the train.

Whereas no one has ever fired a ground-to-air missile at a commercial airliner, right?

Here's another argument in favor of trains:

How many hostage crises, hijackings, or massive acts of sabotage have been carried out against trains in the U.S. (or using trains as weapons against, e.g., buildings) over the last fifty years?

Now, how many have been conducted against airliners?

So, what evidence do you have that that is going to change?

Regards,

[a fool in paradise]

How many hostage crises, hijackings, or massive acts of sabotage have been carried out against trains in the U.S. (or using trains as weapons against, e.g., buildings) over the last fifty years?

Over the last 50 years? Probably very few. But then plane hijackings were non-existent altogether 50 years ago.

We DID have Nazi saboteurs who blew up train tracks stateside in WWII.

[dirtboy]

How many hostage crises, hijackings, or massive acts of sabotage have been carried out against trains in the U.S. (or using trains as weapons against, e.g., buildings) over the last fifty years?

Nice qualifier - in the U.S.

Now try Madrid, Tokyo and the UK.

So trains can be a viable terror target - and especially when they are more widely used, as some are doing here.

And comparing the difficulty of sabotaging track with a couple of hand tools from Home Depot to the difficulty of acquiring a surface to air missile shows you are just being an obtuse idiot.

Take it back to Germany where maybe they'll fall for it.