Why doesn’t the US have more passenger trains?

If your idea of train travel – fast, easy, ubiquitous or even glamorous – is from movies like “Before Sunrise” or “Bullet Train” set in Europe or Asia, you may 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.