Yeah, the problem with passenger rail is, as you said, "the government won't let them fail as a group." In other words, they don't have skin in the game. It's

Yeah, the problem with passenger rail is, as you said, "the government won't let them fail as a group." In other words, they don't have skin in the game. It's also true that freight is a much more attractive business for a railroad, AFAICT. If you fuck up, you just compensate the owners; no one gets killed (most of the time). But the railroads don't have the option of just giving up passenger service, so they can make it so crappy that people leave