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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by M.W. Hemphill Met the ACL's standard they may have from a passenger's or shipper perspective, but not from an operating cost perspective, which is why the ACL route ultimately triumphed. I've heard it said by more than one person that the Florida service of ACL and SAL remained profitable up until Amtrak, and that ACL considered staying out of Amtrak. I have no evidence that this report is true, however. [/quote]To my knowlege the only reason that the other railroad in the South (SOUTHERN) kept its Cresant service out of AMTRACK not because Mr. Claytor particularly loved the passenger business (which he did as an unabashed railfan). I am told by some of the old hands from Southern that he kept his service so as not to have anybody schedule his railroad but him. The nice thing about this was that he kept the service at pre-AMTRACK levels. I had the pleasure of riding The Cresant in 1976 and it was great, especially the food and the service of a particular porter named Clarence, a real gentleman like the guy the folks called Sir around the Southern. To bad it didn't make money, because instead of just going like you do by plane, automobile or bus; on that train, you traveled
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