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[quote user="sklimpel"] They won't move the Builder because it would be dumb. The Builder has the highest ridership of any long distance train in the country and most of that ridership is due to the Highline. We carry more passengers to Minot, ND and Whitefish, MT than from Chicago to Seattle. I know this because I am a conductor out of Saint Cloud, MN. The track is too slow on the southern route, there is too much traffic on the southern route and there is not enough equipment to start one right now. So until more equipment shows up and track speeds get raised, it is moot.[/quote]As was postulated earlier, most of the boardings along the High Line are probably coming from the I-90/I-94 corridor, e.g. the proposed southern line.  If that holds true, then it would be dumb not to move the train closer to where the actual boarders reside.  That is, unless we can finally admit that Amtrak is nothing but a glorified welfare program, wherein any resemblence of financial accountability is a moot point.
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