Why doesn't the US have more passenger trains?
Los Angeles (CNN) -- If your idea of train travel - fast, easy, ubiquitous, even glamorous - is from movies like "Before Sunrise" or "Bullet Train" set in Europe or Asia, you'll be surprised to learn that the US was once the world's superpower in passenger trains. With a busy transcontinental network of 254,000 miles of tracks at its height a little over a century ago, America moved on trains.
By Samantha Delouya, CNN