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Posted by BusMgr on Sat Jun 20 12:58:53 2026, in response to Re: [VIDEO] Inside the redesign of Penn Station, posted by Olog-hai on Thu Jun 18 13:19:33 2026. Long-distance trains went away primarily because what is perceived as a "better" means of long-distance transportation, air travel, supplanted them. Air travel is faster, and with less infrastructure to maintain (that is, there are no "tracks" in the airspace), this is no surprise. This is not to say that air travel has, or should, completely supplant train travel, but in terms of importance and magnitude for most long-distance travel train travel would have declined even in the absence of all regulation, taxation, etc. We may have gone too far in reducing train service, particularly on routes where Amtrak routinely sells out of space, and there ought to be more train service. So while public policy helped eliminate many trains, the real culprit was the emergence of air travel as practicable for long-distance transportation for most Americans. |
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