> In most of the world, railroads (and other roads) are government owned because it's hard to make that kind of business competitive plus there are natsec issue

> In most of the world, railroads (and other roads) are government owned because it's hard to make that kind of business competitive plus there are natsec issues to address. The privatization trend is recent. In many parts of the world, railroads were originally private enterprises. The US is perhaps exceptional here in that they never nationalized theirs.