On this day, April 25, 1946, the wreck of the Exposition Flyer occurred.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. No, it is NOT the reason United States of America does not have fast trains

A larger number and more horrific airliner crashes have not stopped airline travel.

The reason is that fast trains are too efficient and useful.

If fast trains were allowed, it would mean that fewer cars and trucks would be sold and less hydrocarbon would be fracked and sold. People would prefer to travel in comfort by train rather than slower cars. Goods would be transported faster and more efficiently than by truck. Container to rail to cross half the country and then truck for the very last leg.

Rather like how efficient urban mass transit has been sabotaged by General Motors (reference the Los Angeles streetcar crime) and other companies.