We really are spoilt here in the built up areas in the UK, countryside is totally different of course.
My dad loved trains and I remember when he came to Florida he got such a thrill hearing the horn on a train which we then got stuck at crossing at it went on and on and on! That was a freight train, I know my inlaws would drive from Florida to Colorado and Texas and other places and never took the train, so as many states that I have been to in the States I never did take a train!