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<p>[quote user="TrainManTy"]</p> <p>Perhaps what the Class Ones are reported to have said was about operation and/or dispatching, like the UP crews who run Metra trains on one (?) line out of Chicago. That operation is funded by a subsidy, while UP is just a private contractor who staffs and operates the trains. The fact that they're also a Class 1 freight railroad is only a minor difference from a passenger-only contractor like Connex or the Mass Bay Commuter Railroad.</p> <p>In Spain there is a new privately-owned and funded High Speed Rail startup (<a href="http://www.ntvspa.it/en/">link</a>) which uses existing trackage, but with none of that infrastructure existent here in the US, the idea of a profitable privately-funded passenger railroad is far-fetched at best. [/quote]</p> <p>Let it not be said that retired accountants are picky, but the project is in Italy. There was a brief article about it in last months <i>Trains</i>.</p>
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