[Butch Cassidy Slept Here]

So it sounds like you're saying Amtrak strands customers in the middle of nowhere, and the airlines strand customers in relatively populated areas.

The two incidents involving snow were interesting. Unlike the planes, and contrary to what "grommit," a so-called former train engineer, now airline shill, has said, the trains DID move (or were pulled) through the snow and did get somewhere! During the wait, the customers had seats or sleeper beds and NOT the concrete floor of an airline terminal.

As to...

I don't ever remember reading about an airline making an unscheduled landing on an abandoned airfield in the middle of a great wooded expanse to kick off a passenger they had "issues" with.

Well, that's because your airline friends aren't trying hard enough! There's an airport about a day's drive from your house---"SVC"--GrantCountyAirport, Silver City, New Mexico. It has scheduled service by Great Lakes Air (Beech 1900s.) The place is about 20 miles from SilverCity. When closed the place is about as deserted as you can get around there. The winds and tumbleweeds add to the "effect." True, landing a 737-800 there may, or may not, be problematic! American Eagle--take note!

And, just like the airlines, nothing happened (or will) to that Amtrak crew that kicked that diabetic off the train. Drunken customers is one of the very few areas I've sided with the airlines on--as long as they, really, are drunks, and not in, or going into, diabetic shock. I can, easily, see some smart a** gate agent labeling a diabetic, in a state of shock, as a drunk. For those who have brains (does that include gate agents???), the Diabetes people have issued pendants which start-out "I am NOT drunk..."