re: #131 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Well if it’s a new route, it would be new private rails, albeit perhaps with some subsidy for affordability or shared use like carrying USPS letters and boxes. If it’s an old route the model might be a lot like Greyhound rolling on government built highways. I ride rails every working day almost. I use Amtrak to get from LA to Santa Barbara sometimes. Some of those subsidies are designed to get me into a train instead of my car for the obvious good reasons. The California proposal seems a good idea that went off the rails with silly assumptions. Like it must go so damn fast. Or the route should lay out the way they say.

i’m not at all certain private rail should be a thing, what I reject is the premise that private must be evil, or bad, or something. or that it’s not private if some government subsidy applies well.