they're economically not profitable only for the most used routes but if you want an entire network then it will cost extremely much. our taxes pay for them so much every year and prices are just getting higher and higher. the answer is make them all 100% state owned and let every citizen drive for free. when it takes longer and is much more costlier than an airplane to go from hamburg to rome then trains simply lose. overall it's a good thing to have those but it needs complete state funding else it will not work. we pay much more to our rapefugees than our train companies would need. naah we can't have that we rather want rapie subhumans.
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