That's why we have documents that contain historical facts. You may have never ridden the trains from Eugene to Salem and then on to Portland back in the day, but since there were over a dozen each way each day, a great many people did indeed ride them. Today, we have a paltry two Cascades trains each way per day plus the "who knows when it will get here" Coast Starlight. That doesn't make for much of a connection to other cities. We did a better job in the past, as documented (even the Register Guard did an article on this within the past couple of years).

Where are passenger trains being added to the travel mix in great numbers? Not coincidentally, in the heart of the economic engine that drives the west, and thus the nation, in the Sacramento to San Jose corridor. You don't even have to check the schedule, just show up at the station and a train will be along shortly. However, a dozen years ago NorCal looked like Oregon in terms of train service.