>>1704388>You can have a good freight system and a better passenger rail system, they don't take away from eachother.Actually they do. Freight and passenger trains have different speeds and interfere with each other if run on same tracks. Because of these most freight trains in EU run during the night and EU essentially sacrificed freight railroad to passenger railroad. What is stupid because passenger rail is hopelessly outdated in the age of the car and airplane. Many such cases when Europe does things opposite of the right just to be different from the US.