Sure, it's technically possible to ride the rails in America, but the fact is: no one wants to. After decades of underfunding, the industry failed to modernize and adapt to consumers evolving expectations. America's passenger railway network today is a ghost of its former self; inadequate at best and, at worst, irrelevant. While the government focuses on the how of delivering the promise of future rail, Teague spent time contemplating the why from a passenger lens.