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[quote user="jeaton"] As I recall, the GAO report did provide gross cost figures and I am sure the loss was much more than a couple of million dolars.[/quote] Well, therein lies the rub . Personally, I suspect Amtrak was intended to "die" from square one, they just designed a several decade buffer  into the planned schedule, to allow apathy to form it's alliance.My bet is that even if their was a "cost" figure available for the meals served, there is such a whopping amortization figure for  the diner car, the cooking fixtures, and even the trucks that cart the food stuffs to trackside , that the announced figure is irrelavent If they've decided to depreciate that diner car in 5 years versus 15 , I'm sure has a bigger imact on the prescribed "cost" of each cheese burger served, than does the flatware.  SO what they claim as cost, versus what the food served  actually cost them,  could be in two  seperate  universes  The cost they wanted to charge me for a sleeper from Chicago to LA seemed as though  a goodly share of the car's depreciation MUST be built in to the fare.   I just wanted to use it one night, not  buy stock in the company. And when they charge those rates, the offering of "meals included" really isn't much of an inducement.  Made me wonder if buying the food, ala carte , would have saved me just how much. I guess it depends what the customer is looking for, transportation, or a dinner train? And expecting the tax payer to make a "dinnertrain experience" available to even those just looking for transportation doesn't seem like a solution to me either.
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