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As it's run now, yes.
Because rail is the abused bastard and air travel has the government pay for most of it's everything.
Cars too. The government buys your roads, your gas, your parking, and part of your car for you. Only trains need to more than vaguely gesture at paying their own way in this country.
Yes, the theoretical maximum speed for a plane is faster, but we dont fly supersonic anymore, and supersonic trains still exist.
As run right now, sure. If we invested half as much in trains as cars and planes? Oh, easily. And even right now, amtrak's 'trip insurance' is basically license to do exactly that. I have used it this way before.
Shut the fuck up, hippie
hop on hop off does exist for the Alaska Railroad, it just makes it less valuable as a transportation system between cities because it is intended for the people that live on the route to use almost anywhere.
Oops, i often reference a hop on hop off in the extreme, stopping at flag-downs and requests, up in canada.
But you were talking earlier about jumping off at a dtop for like lunch then getting the next train, shiftijg goal posts
Not that you should have to get off for lunch.
good to see Canada has those too
Well its in canada. Operated by a first nations community.