Scale is crucial--"national" system for lower 48 makes no sense at all, even Japan no longer has one "national" system
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overwhelming majority of rail ridership in Japan is on suburban and metropolitan railways in major cities...
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...and intercity rail ridership is mostly by high-speed train, not by conventional train
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with that said: we can definitely do THAT in America! but it's not the same thing as a "national" system
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extensive and overlapping suburban railways in major metropolitan areas, connected by high speed lines where distances make sense...
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...and applying the surplus revenue towards a sparse network of rural and scenic railways which otherwise couldn't support themselves
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