Trucks move almost twice the value of freight in the US as trains. We basically only move gravel, coal, tanks full of chemicals, and other bullshit cargo that is so extraordinarily low-value that the economics of it can ONLY make sense with trains. Just compare how much cargo leaves our major ports on trucks vs on trains – this is a FIRST mile problem and yet for nearly all commercial goods, it most likely gets unloaded from a cargo ship and onto a truck to be delivered to a logistics hub where it will be broken down into more trucks.

We don’t even attempt to move goods to the last mile by train. Major logistics hubs and mfgs are mostly not even rail-connected because they just don’t give a shit (in no small part because of how utterly incompetent our rail operators are), and how MASSIVELY subsidized trucks are by way of the incredibly cheap, huge highway network that we spend orders of magnitude more on than rail.

You’re just making shit up based on feelings.