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there are automated mining trains, today. https://www.riotinto.com/en/news/stories/how-did-worlds-biggest-robot https://www.riotinto.com/en/news/stories/how-did

there are automated mining trains, today. https://www.riotinto.com/en/news/stories/how-did-worlds-biggest-robot https://www.riotinto.com/en/news/stories/how-did-worlds-bigg... if you are building new then an automated isolated railway network is not hard to achieve; and with any airship infrastructure you are pretty much building new anyways.

bluGill 3y ago
Not just mining. A number of public tranist trains run.fully automated.
- lock-the-spock 3y ago
  Indeed, e.g. Paris metro is fully or nearly automated as they wanted to reduce the risk of driver strikes.