A few years back I used to regularly ride the Amtrak between Tampa and Jacksonville, FL.
Much more comfortable than airplanes. You can actually plug in devices, spread out and get some work done. By the time you figured in dealing with security and baggage, not that big a time differential from flying.
IF train was on time, which was a VERY BIG IF.
Most of the time it would get to destination anywhere from 30 minutes to 4 hours late, once 10 hours. Being on time was a cause for amazement and celebration.
When you get to Jax, the station is 10 miles west of downtown, out in the middle of nowhere and not the best of neighborhoods, if you get my drift.
Can’t run a railroad that way, as they used to say. Not unless you’ve got big subsidies from the taxpayers.
That will last until two hours after a terrorist attack on a train.