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I think all lamenting about subsidies for other ways of travel except Amtrak doesn't help. From the beginning Amtrak was required to get at least cost neutreal over time. No question that this was unlikely from the beginning. But when we dicuss measures for Amtrak we have to work along these lines. To change the lines and get sufficient subsidies for Amtrak the American voters would have to vote for a Congress and Senate in favor of Amtrak. Likely? When Amtrak ordered its first new locomotives it were redesigned freight locomotives that could easily be rebuilt for freight service in case Amtrak failed early. Some say Amtrak gets subsidies from the host railroads through the low access costs. I think they forget that it was a deal allowing the hosts to abandon their loss making passenger traffic. At that time the US Supreme Court had ruled that a railroad as a common carrier had to provide loss making passenger service when the company as a whole made a profit. The host railroads exchanged hundreds millions dollars possible losses per year for access fees. Bad deal? I don't know. Regards, Volker
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