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We largely did. The long distance passenger train in North America is mostly a curiosity.

Virtually no one is taking the train from Chicago to Seattle, even when the train is full, its to get on the train, go 4-5 stops and exit.

>>Aloha+(OP)
In the US, passenger takes lower priority to freight. This is why I rarely go by train.

>>r00fus+e3
Isn't the Acela the big exception to that rule? And it just happens to run between the very two cities in the sentence I quoted, and still slower than air travel.

>>joseph+W3
The USA has TONS of intercity rail that nobody knows or cares about. Here's some by name: Pacific Surfliner, Cascades, Brightline. And that doesn't count things like Metrolink and other commuter rail.

There are more and I don't know them because I don't live near them. Acela isn't the only one.

Surfliner is about 3.5 hrs from LA to San Diego; ain't nobody gonna fly that, but lots of people drive it.