[STONEWALLS]

....my wife and I used to take the train from Baltimore to New York....it was just so much easier....BTW I’m old enough to remember back in the 50s when trains and street cars were a handy way to get around...

[Erasmus]

When we got married back in nineteen-forty-four
We'd board that Silver Liner be-low Baltimore
Trip to Virginny on a sunny honeymoon
Nobody cares about the railroads anymore.

--Harry Nilsson

[hinckley buzzard]

BTW I’m old enough to remember back in the 50s when trains and street cars were a handy way to get around...

Same here. Two big factors killed the railroads post WW II: union featherbedding and the government subsidized emphasis on building highways and byways for the automobile. Prior to WW II the nation was blanketed by a web of inter-urban and intra-urban railway companies, many of them very profitable indeed. Anyone objecting in principle to government funding of the railroads needs to justify similar subsidies for airports and the whole airline system, hydroelectric dams and the power grid, the Interstate, a zillion projects of the Army Corps of Engineers, and myriad other infrastructures bought and paid for by the taxpayer and used by private enterprise to make a "profit."