Its the reason why they went though all the trouble of inventing and laying rail in the 19th century, when they could have to shoved steam engines on wagons, and the McAdams road already existed by the time.

And all of Eurasia continues to this day to extensively use rail for the shipment of goods and travel of people. North America shifted away because of the undue influence of Ford and GM in the era of Crony Capitalism coupled with a fad of "car culture." We see now that both companies are no longer as influential as they used to be, and car culture is now limited to gear heads, we are seeing pushes being main to "re-rail" America, though they are still being blocked...actually by older "boomer" liberals of all people who want their trashfire Amtrack and to burn ALL the oil with trucks to not only keep commuter gasoline prices high, but to make way for ruinous electric trucks from their god the Globalist egomaniac Elon Musk of Tesla. Tesla in turn sells very, very, very expensive "non solutions" that will cost more to make than they worth when a good old diesel or electric locomotive is >>>> all the electric trucks for both oil consumption and even carbon emissions.