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[quote user="henry6"]I would think it was the railroad's choice to operate its trains the way they did that day...if an Amtrak train was side tracked, would Amtrak get compensated for its fuel, overtime, and customer's tickets? No, probably not. Nobody wants to be the bad guy but everybody is...from Congress to the car cleaners....[/quote] You have a good point.  If Amtrak is delayed because of freight traffic congestion or a slow order, it will have incremental costs, i.e. fuel, labor, passenger delay (hotels, meals, fare reimbursements), etc., that will not be covered by the freight railways. Amtrak will be able to recapture some of its delay costs through reduced on-time performance incentives, i.e. it won't pay the railroads as much because of the failure to keep its passenger trains on time.  How it comes out in the wash is unknown. Between FY09 and FY13 Amtrak's payments to the freight railroads for hosting its trains declined from $136.5 million to $110 million.  Amtrak does not give the reason for the decrease in the monies paid to the freight carriers.  Presumably some of it may be due to a failure to keep Amtrak's trains on time.
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