Just as important is the ease of using trains but, in some cases, this just doesn't happen. I would often travel from St. Louis to Chicago for business and wou

Just as important is the ease of using trains but, in some cases, this just doesn't happen. I would often travel from St. Louis to Chicago for business and would think nothing of taking the train but I quickly realized how unreliable it was. A cold day froze the tracks making my five-hour ride a twelve hour one. When commercial traffic refused to let us pass through a couple of times, waiting for a pass through was the straw that broke that back and no longer think once about taking the train when my car gets me there just as fast at a more convenient time.