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There is a lot of slow track in America. For example, the track through Ennis, Texas has just been jumped up to 30 mph on the UP mainline from Dallas and Houston. No wonder Amtrak does not operate a train between the two largest cities without a direct link.... Amtrak also sets its times for Chicago, too. Chicago is the hub, most of the trains arrive in the morning to early afternoon, and leave in the late afternoon to evening hours. Because of this, Amtrak has trains arriving and leaving Minneapolis, Omaha, Kansas City, and San Antonio either in the early mornings or late evenings.... The solution is to convert quickly to fast high speed trains. Then instead of having one train a day serving these cities in each direction, we could end up with several trains a day. You might ask how? The distance from Dallas to Chicago is around 900 miles. When a train averages 40 mph it takes over 22 hours to travel the distance, therefore, the one train a day.... Now if the train averaged 150 mph it would take 6 hours to travel the distance, meaning there could be 3 trains a day, at least.... You are right. The ONE MAIN reason why Amtrak does not get more ridership is the very poor times the trains arrive in many major cities..... Most of us want to leave around 9 am to reach their destination before dinner, say 6 pm....
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