Fast Company

The sad slow death of America’s passenger trains. No one takes the train anymore, so why pour more money into it, right? But perhaps no one takes the train because there are no trains to take. If rail travel was cheap, and convenient and fast, there is no telling what the market might be.

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    brooooooooo. please. i take the amtrak all the time! how else is a poor college student in chicago without a car...

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    happens when America’s transportation policy is written by...automobile corporations.

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    rep that detroit chicago train!

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    America NEEDS a National Rail System. AMTRAC is not able...become a National Rail...

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    RAGE IN MY HEART. seriously, i would get to go so many more places if the trains still ran. we have the infrastructure &...

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