Are you from the department of central planning?
I have no problem with trains.
I have a problem with subsidizing them.
If someone would risk their own capital to acquire a thousand miles of right-of-way between Chicago & Sacramento, along with the rolling stock and the fuel used to make it go, and hire a staff to maintain tracks and rolling stock and serve customers etc.; and then make a profit by transporting 204 people on it over a couple of days, I say cool.