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[quote user="Datafever"][quote user="Suburban Station"][quote user="Datafever"] [quote user="Suburban Station"]One wonders though, whether that moneywoudl be better spent funding multiple trains per day between sets of locations rather than one long train through all locations.[/quote]First of all, if one long distance train (LA to Chicago, say) a day is not making money, then I don't see how having multiple trains for each segment could possibly make any money.  In addition, you then have to throw in the burden of getting luggage transferred, and the possibility of missed connections.I personally would find a multiple train trip to be much less acceptable. [/quote]I'm not sure you understood the gist of what I said. the point wouldn't be to take someone to and from LA, but to and from KC...or KC to Denver...more than once a day. It might not make money but it surely would lose less than long distance trains which hardly anyone takes and are extremely labor intensive. The point was, if you broke up the routes, for the same money, you could serve many more riders but it would serve different functions. If you're going to keep these old routes, don't call it transportation, call it vacation. get carnival in there to put up a gambling car, unlimited tabs, dome cars, real chefs, etc. It's a land cruise. [/quote]Maybe I don't understand your point.  Can we take the California Zephyr as an example?  San Francisco to Chicago, one train a day, each way.  As I understand it, you are advocating multiple trains between Chicago and Omaha, Omaha and Denver, Denver and Salt Lake City, and so on.Let's take Omaha to Denver.  Currently the CZ provides one train each direction between those two cities every day.  What would be the benefit of having multiple trains providing passage between those two cities each day?  If you run three trains a day, the operating cost will be three times what it costs CZ to operate once a day.  Since I doubt that you would end up with three times the current ridership, the net result is that even more than three times the current amount of loss would occur. [/quote]I think what he's talking about is the idea of eliminating LD trains but maintaining LD connectivity via a more hub and spoke system of intermediate distance trains.  Use the 24 hour/overnight concept between cities via dedicated trains, and if someone is in it for the LD haul, they switch from the "Point A to Point B" train to the "Point B to Point C" train, etc.
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