Editing Inter-city rail (section)

===North America===
{{See also|Higher-speed rail}}

====Canada====
{{Main|Rail transport in Canada}}
[[File:VIA Rail Train London Ontario.jpg|thumb|A [[Via Rail]] train at [[London station (Ontario)|London station]] in [[London, Ontario]]]]
[[Canada]]'s inter-city trains are mostly run by [[Via Rail]], a Canadian [[Crown corporations of Canada|crown corporation]] mandated to operate inter-city passenger rail service in Canada. The majority of its services connect major cities in the most populous part of the country known as the [[Quebec City - Windsor Corridor]], straddling the provinces of [[Ontario]] and [[Quebec]]. It also operates long-distance trains to [[western Canada]] and [[the Maritimes]] on the [[Canadian (train)|Canadian]] and [[Ocean (train)|Ocean]] lines and by smaller trains to more remote areas of Canada. Much like the [[United States]], Canada previously had a larger intercity rail network prior to the 1970s; certain major cities such as [[Calgary]] and [[Regina, Saskatchewan|Regina]] lack connections to the extant Via Rail network, and passenger rail usage outside of the Quebec City - Windsor Corridor is infrequent and geared towards the tourism market.

International trains, run jointly by [[Amtrak]] and Via Rail, connect [[New York City]] with [[Maple Leaf (train)|Toronto]]. [[Amtrak]] also operates the [[Adirondack (train)|''Adirondack'']] between New York City and [[Montreal]], and the [[Amtrak Cascades]] service linking Vancouver and [[Seattle]]. In addition, the [[White Pass and Yukon Route]] links [[Skagway, Alaska|Skagway]] and [[Whitehorse]] on an isolated northern route.

Other inter-city passenger rail operators include the [[Ontario Northland Railway]], which operates passenger services between [[Cochrane, Ontario|Cochrane]] and [[Moosonee]] in rural [[northern Ontario]] and [[luxury train]] operators such as the [[Royal Canadian Pacific]] and [[Rocky Mountaineer]], which operate rail tours in [[Western Canada]].

====Mexico====
{{See also|Rail transport in Mexico}}
[[File:Chepe Divisadero.jpg|thumb|[[Ferrocarril Chihuahua al Pacífico]] (Chihuahua-Pacific Railway) in [[Mexico]]]]
In [[Mexico]], the federal government discontinued almost all scheduled inter-city passenger trains in June 2001. [[Ferromex]] operates trains on three routes: [[Chihuahua City]] to [[Los Mochis]], [[Torreón]] to [[Cañitas de Felipe Pescador Municipality|Felipe Pescador]], and [[Guadalajara]] to [[Amatitán]]. Mexican President [[Enrique Peña Nieto]] has proposed intercity trains, including from [[Mexico City]] to [[Toluca]] (construction began 7 July 2014), the Peninsular train from [[Yucatán]] to [[Riviera Maya]], and the Mexico-Querétaro high-speed train from [[Puebla]] to [[Tlaxcala]] and [[Mexico City]] with future expansion to Guadalajara. In recent years, passenger trains have seen a revival, with the construction of the tourist-oriented [[Tren Maya]] route traversing the Yucatan Peninsula.

====United States====
{{See also|High-speed rail in the United States}}
[[File:Amtrak California Zephyr Green River - Floy, Utah.jpg|thumb|The westbound ''[[California Zephyr]]'' in [[Book Cliffs]] in [[Utah]]]]
There was a dense system of inter-city railways in the [[United States]] in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. After the decline of passenger railroads in [[North America]] in the 1960s, the inter-city lines decreased greatly and today the national system is far less dense. The most heavily used routes with the greatest ridership and schedule frequencies are in the [[Northeastern United States]] on [[Amtrak]]'s [[Northeast Corridor]]. About one in every three users of mass transit in the United States and two-thirds of the nation's rail riders live in [[Transportation in New York City|New York City]]. The two busiest passenger rail stations in the United States are [[Pennsylvania Station (New York City)|Penn Station]] and [[Grand Central Terminal]], both in [[Manhattan]], New York City. Passenger rail outside the Northeast, [[Northwestern United States|Northwest]], [[California]], and the [[Chicago metropolitan area]] is infrequent and rarely used relative to networks in Europe and Japan.

Passenger lines in most of the United States are operated by the [[State-owned enterprise|quasi-public corporation]] Amtrak. The separate [[Alaska Railroad]], which is also government-owned, runs passenger trains in [[Alaska]], and the privately owned [[Brightline]] rail service operates in [[Florida]]. The [[California High-Speed Rail]] system began construction in 2015 and aims to connect major job centers in [[California]].

Multiple new rail corridors have been identified for private development throughout the country. These include the [[Brightline West]] corridor from [[Las Vegas]] to [[Los Angeles]], California, the [[Texas Central Railway]] between [[Dallas]] and [[Houston]] in [[Texas]], and others.