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Dru, While I respect your opinion, and possibly even see where you're coming from, you have to understand that to some of us, reading about railroads in Nebraska is just as boring as for you reading about Amtrak. Personally, for me, articles such as those on Washington's Union Station and the traffic issues at Big Apple's Penn Station, ARE about railroading at its very essence. Let's face it unless you work on a railroad or constantly hang around a primarily-freight mainline or a freight yard (not easy if you live in Philadelphia or New York), passenger trains, where they are available, is the way that you interact with railroads. It has been said many times over that the fact that passenger trains in the U.S. are now concentrated in a few major areas (you can count on your hands the amount of long-distance routes) is precisely why the public's knowledge of railroads (unless they live along thr NEC) is embarassingly low. Regarding your comments about Amtrak being a "waste of tax money", passenger trains are transportation - a form of service to the general public. The main objectives of transportation are speed, reliability, safety, and comfortability, with profitability a DISTANT second. In private hands, profitability, rightfully, moves to the front, thus conflicitng with the true objectives.
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