There is no government-run train service that has ever run in the black, period. If there were a market for this, people would be willing to invest in it with THEIR OWN MONEY.

All government programs are, by definition, reductions in the productive capacity of the people living under the yolk of that government.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090416/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_rail