Shirley you can't be taking us seriously...
I'm sorry, I do. If you want to get something done railway-wise, then Amtrak isn't the way to go.
There is a huge difference between the swiss, the german, the austrian, the swedish, the finnish, the norwegian (etc.) railways and Amtrak.
Amtrak does the best it can do with the resoucres it gets. But even Switzerland and Austria are spending more money on public transport than Amtrak gets. And due to the lack of infrastructure funding Amtrak will never make money with it's trains. But these are the obvious problems we all know.
Compare that to the german railways.
And yes, when going to China, I would take the train.