You are willfully ignoring the reality that building a competing rail network that services the same area is wildly impractical given the land requirements. Th

You are willfully ignoring the reality that building a competing rail network that services the same area is wildly impractical given the land requirements. This is the same argument behind having multiple providers to share one set of power lines, telephone cables, etc. Duplicate copies of physical infrastructure are pointless, wasteful, and unlikely to occur in practice, so there’s rarely competitive pressure.