1980
any trip under 500 miles I’m driving, over that it will by air or driving.
Passenger trains should be illegal!!!!!
Then it was the Amtrak San Diegan. The Santa Fe railroad, who named the trains, made that same trip in 2½ hours, with four intermediate stops (some trips had four additional flag stops); fastest average speed about 51 mph. Amtrak’s average speed is almost 20 mph slower; modern technology ought to have made the trips faster (e.g. average speed of 70 mph would mean a journey time of 1 hour 49 minutes), but that’s the feds for you.
It’s not the fault of the mode; it’s the government.
The same government that took over the highways, too.