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William: There has been so much traffic and so many replies I can't figure out which of my posts your message was replying to. However, you suggest that Amtrak should pay for a portion of it's cost that it impacts agianst the freight companies, whose track it runs over. Am I correct? I would say, yes, probably that is a good concept- BUT- not necessarily so. Let me put it this way- the freight road incurrs costs to support Amtrak, so there is a negative or "debt" on the books of the freight road Amtrak owes. But instead of paying the freight road for their maintenance costs, Amtrak, or more specifically, US-DOT & Congress, could pay for infrastructure improvements such as better signalization, double and triple tracking, etc...., thus paying the debt in this manner instead. If there was, say, a trust fund for rail, these roads could receive credits in that trust fund equivilant to their Amtrak related subsidies, which would be redeemable in actual improvement to track structure etc..... At least, that is one way of handling that.
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