Railways Receiving Billions From Infrastructure Bill Are ‘Dying,’ Experts Say

Passengers walk along an Amtrak train on a track at Union station in Washington on July 18, 2021. Daniel Slim/AFP via Getty Images

A passenger train racing across long empty stretches of American plains may be iconic, but it’s an economic anachronism, experts say.

Even so, the Senate’s infrastructure bill would allocate $66 billion toward the repair of Amtrak lines—nearly 60 cents to Amtrak for every dollar the bill put toward highways.