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They are also simply too expensive that's why no one takes them imo. Why spend $2,500-$5,000 and your trip takes ~30+ hours when you can spend $650 and get the

• onetokeoverthe 5mo ago
  it's expensive but it's $500. you dont have to go first CLass.
• atlasunshrugged 5mo ago
  Indeed, a few years ago I spent a couple hundred bucks to travel from DC to LA (in a seat, not a cabin). It took 3 days and was only a little cheaper than a flight that would have taken five hours, but it was something I always wanted to do. But if it were competing on price and/or convenience, long range train travel in the US almost always loses to flights except for in the Northeast corridor (and even then its at best a tossup)