Willie doesn’t realize, or chooses to ignore, that if his dream is realized, and people are forced to use rail instead of air or passenger car, his trains would become a very attractive terrorist target.
After a few incidents such as the terrorist bombing on the British trains, these same machines would show up at railroad platforms.
Although the idea of going on that thread and tweaking Willie’s nose is amusing, I think I’ll leave him to languish in his delusions.
2700 pounds of Dynamite caught fire in a rail car in Boulder Colorado in 1907 and blew up when the water form the fire department hit the car. It killed 7 and broke windows all over Boulder. Now they have Propane tanker cars that can wipe out a 1 mile radius and they will have 20 of them per train. OUCH