The death of rail is sad, period. Watching all the steel for the old rail lines being ripped out of the ground since the 1980s is so short sighted. Obtaining

The death of rail is sad, period. Watching all the steel for the old rail lines being ripped out of the ground since the 1980s is so short sighted. Obtaining rights of way to rebuild lines will be virtually impossible in the modern world. Well, not impossible, but orders of magnitude more expensive than maintaining existing RoW. Even the large scale removal of twinned tracks has removed capacity that previously existed which makes it difficult for passenger rail to coexist with freight. <sigh>