While trains are the best way to move freight they still won’t remove trucks from the highways. The problem is that trains lose the economic advantage over distances shorter than a couple of hundred miles.
Better to have a rail to road transfer point every 1000 miles with trucks able to radiate out 500 miles from there in all directions.
In the rural area where I live, there used to be train service to almost every little village. There had to be, because that's how milk got to the cities. It was not subsidized publicly-run transit, either. You could ride a train into the nearest large city from way out in the boondocks, reading or snoozing on the way. Now the trains are gone, most of the tracks are torn up, but I wouldn't think of driving into any large city.
Govt. policy--taxes and labor--ruined the railroads.