Railways in the United States (Argosyverse)

All railway trackage in the United States (including protectorates of Japan and Sintopia) is owned by Amtrak, a QUANGO non-profit and division of the Interstate Foundation. Amtrak both runs its own trains, and subcontracts private railways such as Continental Rail to run trains on its tracks. For local metro systems such as these in New York City and Washington DC, the tracks are owned and maintained by Amtrak, but the trains are ran by local government agencies.

The railway industry is one of the few industries that is fully unionized, meaning that rail strikes are extremely rare (the last documented rail strike was in the 1910s).