If the government can't do anything positive to improve train travel then they should just get out of it. All they have to do is guarantee the easements for rou

If the government can't do anything positive to improve train travel then they should just get out of it. All they have to do is guarantee the easements for routes -- and there should be no prohibitive taxation and inordinately burdensome regulation on these easements and there needs to be plenty of them covering all parts of the country for both freight and passenger. Private industry can work out the rest. But, if the government would like to do something proactive, they could start a big project to build-out double-wide high-speed rails across the country. It would be a huge boon for our economy. Unfortunately none of it will ever happen because oil and airline lobbyists have their claws far too deep into our congressmen. (P.S. Example of how government regulation is the problem... ever take a train from Florida to Texas? Would you have ever have guessed the route goes thru Chicago? By law.)