Travel woes on planes, not trains
Here is a long article on how airline passengers are crammed into full, or nearly full planes, because that's the only way airlines can make money now.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22074357/

Nowhere in the article is any mention of Amtrak. There's no comparison made between the narrow seats, packed into clusters of three or four across, on planes and the nice, wide reclining seats on Amtrak where you can sit back, spread out and relax. Or, if you like, you can even lie down in your private compartment.
On a plane, either you carry along your own food or you do without. On Amtrak, you stroll to the dining car, sit at a table with a linen tablecloth on it, and order from an actual menu. You're served piping hot meals, whole, entire meals with salads to start, meat and vegetables and roll, and dessert if you like. Or you can go to the lounge car and buy sandwiches and chips, which you can eat in the observation deck, enjoying the scenery as it goes by.
And, in my opinion, the clincher: if two trains collide, they don't both fall out of the sky, killing everyone on board.
Why would anyone want to fly when they can take the train?