I think Amtrak will become good when bitcoin is the dominant money. That's because I think corporations become a lot more efficient when they can't beg for the money printer to go brr - that's basically what's going on when corporations get special deals with government, special interest rates, guarantees, mote-raising regulation, etc.. Look at how the railroads were originally built - the only thing the government did was offer a prize of 1 or 2 million dollars (forgot, but not more than 2 mil) to the first RR to reach the west coast. The RRs had to buy the land - there was shady stuff, but they paid. The winner got the prize, the losers had to figure out how to turn a profit to repay debts.
One of Amtrak's problems is that they are required to provide service to places that aren't profitable. And they aren't profitable because suburbia spreads out the population, so the traffic at one station is always relatively sparse. Hard money fixes suburbia, too. Land/homes stop being a store of value, people lose whatever incentives they've had not to have chickens, and population reorganized to both higher and lower densities. I would definitely not want to own a suburban house while bitcoin is monetizing. Anyways... Amtrak will be fine after the US realizes it actually does have to learn from the models built in other countries.
