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I am of the opinion that all of the West coast trains will go, except for the Coast Starlight. Empire Builder, California Zephyr, Southwest Chief, and Sunset Limited are history as they are today. Amtrak will probably put a local on the routes to Minneapolis-Saint Paul, to Omaha, if not to Denver, to Kansas City, and more than likely cut service west of Houston, if not San Antonio. We should also expect the Cardinal to disappear along with the Silver Star (now the Palmetto), both have either been downgraded or have lost their sleepers. More than likely I suspect one of these two will go to, either the Three Rivers or the Pennsylvanian. I also suspect the Twilight Shoreliner will go to, as it is no longer needed with all 20 trainsets of the new Acela trains running along that route. Virginia might pay for a local to Newport News...... However, I suspect the Texas Eagle will survive, along with the Silver Meteor and Silver Palm, the Lake Shore Limited, the City of New Orleans, and the Capitol Limited as is... Having looked at the high speed rail network already in the works, there won't be any high speed rail over the Rockies, and whatever routes that can be saved east of the Rockies can be and should be saved....for the next generation of high speed trains on their routes...... As I said before on another discussion topic, the driving force is high speed rail. The one factor is that the trains have to go to large metropolitan areas, and not be so linear as they have been in the West , not going to any large cities for over a day's 24 hour run.... Well, what do you think?
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