In the West, there are not enough people to make this pay for itself. Idaho has 250,000 Sq. Km. and 2 million people. In the East, density is high enough, but passenger traffic is second priority to freight trains. The cost of welding tracks together, required to make the ride smooth and safe, would be huge.
Is that what they're doing with the Train To Nowhere i.e. Bakersfield to Merced. Does that make it the Train To and From Nowhere? Maybe the two cities will have a competition to decide which is the real nowhere town, although I vote, as always, for Trona.
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