I find it funny how much Euros make fun of America for having bad infrastructure because we don't have a good government-funded passenger rail network, despite the fact that the federally-maintained interstate highway system, publically-owned airports, and private freight rail do literally everything Euros think you "need" nationalized rail to do.
I can take an hour and a half flight from Boston to Pittsburgh whereas a train from Munich to Paris takes 5.5-8 hours to cover the same distance. Air travel is a better solution for mid and long distance trips unless you're too dirt-poor to afford an airline ticket, which I assume all the people whining about how we need to cripple freight rail in favor of scamtrak are.
Fun fact: the US government spends drastically less on EAS subsidies for flights to sparsely populated unprofitable regions than it does to keep Amtrak afloat offering services to major metro centers