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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by donclark I think this time Amtrak is going to lose its transcontintentals and some other long distance lines.... Oh, the NEC will survive, possibly with a cash infusion from the states it serves..... and possibly the Auto Train.... However, I still see no vision from Amtrak about its future.... The future of passenger railroads in America is not the status quo of running out of date equipment on out of date tracks..... Now is the time to move on HSR, and convince the nation it can afford a up to date HSR system from New York to Chicago, and further south on the eastern seaboard, plus a line from Northern California to Southern California..... All of these HSR lines if properly funded and built could turn a profit....something the airlines are failing to do...... [/quote] Talk about fantasy! Who's fault is it that Amtrak runs on "out of date tracks"? Amtrak's? You so-called railfans going to give Amtrak a black eye for this one as well? The call for HSR is irrational. Who's gonna foot the bill? No one wants to pay for current passenger rail service. Why would lawamakers want to fund something many consider pie in the sky? Amtrak can hardly get scraps now with all the hue and cry from so-called free market types who turn blindly to fed funding of air and highways - the very competitors that take most of freight RR's customers. Imagine how much whining, moaning and cursing Amtrak would receive if it proposed HSR.
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