Private car is in the “less than million” range, so it’s basically a smallish land yacht.

Yeah, but you probably get these enormous bills you weren't expecting, and absolutely nothing you can do about it.

Sounds exactly like a yacht.

LOL. At least there's some market for yachts. More "greater fools" to take it off your hands.

A railroad car -- now that has a more limited appeal.

The super-rich NEVER see a bill: they have people for that

Amtrak online store: "There's a subordinate for that."

I mean just to devil's advocate this — why is it more ridiculous than a private RV?

Feels like something that could have been completely normalized in a different timeline with more common train transit.

Because we have a lot of roads and car infrastructure.

We don't have many trains or much rail infrastructure.