Ryan

There is one major reason the US has no trains and then a number of smaller reasons. The big reason is pure economic geography. Trains and high speed trains work best at "mid range journeys" between dense population centers. Think roughly 150-400 miles. Anything shorter or longer and there are better options for travelers. What doesn't the US have much of? Dense networks of large cities 150-400 miles apart. A little on the eastern seaboard but beyond that you just don't have the economic geography. The second layer to this question is that building new trains are just prohibitively expensive. There are many reasons it is prohibitively expensive but leave that aside for the moment, it is absurdly expensive. For the amount of money California plans to spend just to build the Los Angeles to San Francisco rail link (NOT ongoing operations or upkeep), you could make air travel between the two cities free in perpetuity just from the interest of what you would spend to build rail. It just doesn't make any sense and I love trains but there is a reason.

Que vuelvan los toldos, parasoles, postigones y persianas a la arquitectura

This photo of Cincinnati's Over-The-Rhine neighborhood goes incredibly hard.

This aerial photo is the best photo I have ever seen of the Lower West End of the Cincinnati Urban Basin. I literally gasped seeing this. Remarkable photo showing the scale of dense fabric that existed here prior to Urban Renewal and highways. CMC/Historical Society Archives