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Aw, c'mon, Ed, I don't buy it. The part about not knowing who Roy Orbison is, that is! Pretty Woman? Only the Lonely? Blue Bayou? C'mon! Now, back to trains. Now I understand where you are going. So basically you are saying, $320k for a train. OK, now divide that by a reasonable ticket price for sleeper, say $640. Thats 500 passengers. Let's say the average sleeper holds 20 people. 500 / 20 = 25 cars. $320k / 25 cars = $12,800 per car. Might work. Then take coach. Let's say a resonable ticket for a run of about 400 to 900 miles is $60. $320k / $60 = 5333 passengers. (yikes!) The average coach holds lets say 70 people. 5333 / 70 = 76 cars. (!!!) $320k / 76 cars = $4k per car. No way. So according to this the formula that works for long distance is sleeper. BUT these are all hypothetical numbers. Perhaps if Amtrak's accounting were more transparent we might know those figures.
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