It didn't happen over night. The US had more passenger rail in the 1940s than Europe has now! Northern Indiana has the same population density of Scotland, so "

It didn't happen over night. The US had more passenger rail in the 1940s than Europe has now! Northern Indiana has the same population density of Scotland, so "too spread out" isn't the issue. Cities only spread out over the past century. You start building rail again and it will get drawn back in. But the State has to fund that mode of transportation first.