How does Brightline make money?

Hi, thanks for tuning in to this installment of #bluestoolexplains, our new offshoot of the #bluestoolrants series. Today's video is about Brightline, private rail, and business! Brightline is a private rail company that's building highspeed rail lines in Florida and California. There aren't many private rail lines in the US, or many trains at all for that matter, so Brightline is definitely an outlier. Thing is, why aren't there more private rail companies? Why are there so few trains? Why is only Brightline doing this? Well, the reason there aren't more private rail companies like Brightline is because trains just aren't very profitable. Hold on though, if trains aren't profitable, then why would anyone ever open a private rail company like Brightline? Well, to answer that, you'll have to watch the video!

In this video we answer the questions:
Why is private passenger rail so rare?
Are there any modern examples of private passenger rail?
How does private passenger rail (and Brightline) make money?

TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Why is private passenger rail so rare?
0:36 - Are there any modern examples of private passenger rail?
2:30 - How does private passenger rail make money?

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