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Pick one or specify you mean passenger rail.
Just because you have a big country doesn't mean you can claim most functioning rail system. USA has the most km of track, but if you adjust to per capita it's 20th. That is a better judge
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_rail_transport_network_size
Y'all can down vote me all you want but it still won't change the fact the United States has a functioning railroad system outside of passenger service. I only mention network size because it was the easiest metric to pull up. But the point is whatever metric you use outside of passenger service the US is in the top three countries which is something not possible unless you have a functioning railroad system.
The US is third for tonnes per kilometer.[1]
The US is second for tonnes hauled per year.[2]
The US moves more intermodal containers by rail then all of Europe combined. [3]
It might seem like the United States doesn't know how to run trains but in reality we have one of the best freight networks out there.
I'd also like to add that on the passenger side of things the US is really trying to improve but the investments haven't had time to come to fruition yet. Amtrak has 768 siemens venture cars and 175 ALC-42 locomotives on order so it can expand to 39 new routes [4]. There's been a significant amount of funding into high speed rails for other corridors outside of the northeast corridor [5].
Feels like there's been too many catastrophic accidents to call it functional, maybe that's just me