Unpopular opinion but none. Vermont lacks the population density for rail to make any sense. I know this because even our bus system seems to run empty much of the time.

For an unlimited budget, let's give everyone an electric car. The cool thing about cars is they take you anywhere you want to go on your own schedule and whims. Alternatively we all put steel wheels on our cars and put tracks down every road...

The only way we could kinda make rail work is if we all agreed to move our houses within a half mile of a train station, and convince our workplaces to do that as well..?

That being said, for longer routs that could compete with flying or a 4 hour drive, now I'm going to be interested. I'd do a drive to Burlington if a train could woosh me to Boston or NYC!