>>1743391>>1743691>>1743711>spot the people who have never traveled through this region before.See how squiggly all those highways are on the map, as opposed to being straight lines between populated places? Building rail through mountains isn't cheap in any case and the distances between populated places where there's enough demand to justify passenger rail are massive. You can point to Japan as an example to show that the engineering challenges can be overcome, and that's true, but Japan is an area about the size of California with a population double that of the entire western half of the US...
