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[quote user="PJS1"]Could you cite the reference to the Supreme Court decision?[/quote] I found it again: <a href="https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/R42512.html">https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/R42512.html</a> You find it under Abandonments, Discontinuances, Profitability: Does It Provide a Basis for Passenger Access to Freight Tracks? in the 6th passage. It is more complicated than I remember, sorry for being wrong. But there is the following sentence in the same section, two passages down: The 1958 and 1964 Supreme Court cases suggest that where passenger service is deemed vital, a profitable railroad could in some circumstances be required to provide such service even at a loss. That made abandonment quite unpredictable I think. Supreme Court Rulings were based on a different set of laws after 1970. Since 1970 there was the Amtrak-Law: <a href="http://ctr.trains.com/~/media/files/pdf/amtrak_law.pdf">http://ctr.trains.com/~/media/files/pdf/amtrak_law.pdf</a> In Section 306 the "Applicability of the Interstate Commerce Act and other Laws" is defined. If I understand correctly Amtrak was exempted from ICC abondonment regulations. The same law required that railroads not participating in Amtrak would have to provide passenger service until January 1st, 1975 and than go throught ICC procedures for abondonment. In 1970 passenger rail still had losses of $449.5 million. Getting out of passenger transportion immediately saved the railroads about $1.9 billion dollars. Regards, Volker
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