Right now trains are useless:
- You have to finish quest and discover all the train stations to even be able to use them
- You have to come to the train station at exact time, to be able to travel to desired station
- Train is rather slow and train stations are located OUTSIDE cities, so you have to travel by foot anyway
- And you have to pay 100 caps at each station (so traveling from SF to VC cost 300 caps)
My suggestion is:
- Make all the stations visible from the start - new players probably don't even know that trains exist in this game... And these supposed to be for new players (old ones have cars)
- You can talk to train driver at any time and he will just teleport you to desired station. Yes it's not too realistic, but at least trains will be useful. Right now travelling by trains takes way too much time than it should.
- Make train stations as separate districts inside the city.
This way trains (that supposed to be for newbies with no money for a car) will become useful.