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Greeting everyone, <br /> <br />I'm new to this forum. I think the point you're missing about susbidizing Amtrak (or other utilities) is that unprofitable does not mean uneconomic. Non-users benefit form rail services to, due to things like reduced road congestion and other amenities. For instance I spend a week a year working on a tourist railway in Scotland. The guy who runs the post office by one of our stations admits that without the trade our railway brings him, he'd go out of business. Thus the village benefits from having the railway. <br /> <br />In the 1980's it was calculated that one of the biggest lost making lines in Britain, The Cambrian Coast line in Mid-Wales was losing £900,000 per year, but the economic benefits it brought to the area were worth about £2.5 million a year. So although unprofitable it was certainly not uneconomic.
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