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Originally Posted by plutonicpanda
Correct. But it also ended because it was no longer profitable. The auto companies bought many of the lines on the cheap because they were going under.
Edit to add they were no longer profitable because people wanted cars. Cars were and are the future. They will also make transit even more obsolete when autonomous cars become cheap.
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Actually, while cars were popular, people still liked the trains and many were quite busy when they started taking them off the rails, because from what I recall reading shell companies from the car/supply companies were buying them up and taking the trains off the road in cities so they wouldn't have competition and could force people to buy more cars, most notably a place like LA.
The problem was once people noticed it, much of it was dismantled and destroyed before governments could step in or governments didn't try to stop it, and people already adjusted to life with cars and the world evolved with that.