It’s not mysterious. Of the major ways to travel significant distances trains are the worst (buses are less pleasant, but way cheaper) for the consumer, and very high in overhead. Which makes it undesirable and unprofitable and without Nixon creating a federal one would have evaporated long ago.
Nixon could have deregulated the railroads instead. But he didn’t.
Which makes it undesirable and unprofitable and without Nixon creating a federal one would have evaporated long ago.
a real shame...one of my fondest memories was climbing aboard the Phoebe Snow, 59 years ago when I was seven years old, and going to visit my grandparents in upstate NY...the conductor kept an eye on me, making sure I got to the dining car and off at the right stop...those were the days, my FRiends...