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Empire Builder moved to a more southerly route?
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[quote user="nanaimo73"]The politicians involved don't want to move the Empire Builder to the "NP" route, they would lose 10 times as many votes on the old route as they would gain on the new route. They want a second train added on the "NP" route, but there are no cars available for such a service.<p>North Dakota is not going to pay for the cars, and neither will Amtrak. If a new train is to be introduced, Montana will have to pay for it. I am not sure they could afford it, with less than a million people, and why would they pay millions for new cars when they won't pay thousands to study the new route ?[/quote]</p><p>And Montana has been in deficit for the past 13 years, 5 years ago they started going to both Oregon, and California to get loans just to pay their state budget! </p>
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