[TopDog2]

The only reason that traveling by air is even marginally acceptable is that the time a passenger must be subjected to all the indignities of mass transit is usually only a couple of hours or so. To place a passenger on a train that will take 4-5 times as long to reach its destination is asking too much. I mean how long do you want to sit in a cramped seat, rubbing elbows with smelly people that you don't know?

[Publius]

I mean how long do you want to sit in a cramped seat, rubbing elbows with smelly people that you don't know?

The seats aren't cramped on the train. Or at least on the trains I ride.