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Chris, If a store is only open one hour a day, it won't sell enough product to make costs or profit. If it's open 3 hours a day it moves enough product to maybe break eevn. If it's open 24 hours it moves a lot of product. One train a day, 3/4 train of customers. 3 trains a day, 3 trains full of passengers. Hourly service, NEC. The place becomes a standard fixture of transportation. Years ago there were 5 round trips by rail, Chicago to Seattle. Now there's only 1. But the population has increased. You can't tell me that a well run passenger service, with many departures won't start to cover its costs to a point. Add to that the fact that railroad work rules have changed creating better economies. A ticket agent open 8 hours for 2 trains is inefficient. Open for 3 trains is better. There has been mention that the car has replaced the train, and which one is more modern. There were cars before passenger trains for centuries. We just called them wagons and pulled them with horses on lousey roads. That all got improved to where we are today iin the realm of automobiles. So do we say that an Amtrak train, not as refined as streamliners from the 50s is the state of the art, thereby halting all efforts to improve the product? They managed that overseas. As for America being too far flung in the wild west and there is no need for the service I must ask then why was an Interstate Highway run out there? I don't think that was benevolence for the citizenry of Mandan, ND. No. It was so you could drive all the way to the coast. I was just at Chicago's O'Hare Airport the other day to fetch my brother arriving from France. What a monster that airport is. I'm getting older, and I don't have the energy it takes to put in a 9 hour day driving the Interstate. I live far enough away from any airport to make air travel easy. Besides I don't think much of casting myself off into the blue yonder on a firey fusalage. Everyone that I've ever spoken with on an Amtrak long distance train says the same thing. They wi***he service was a little better, and that there would be more trains. They weren't railfans. they think trains are a viable alternative. When I worked Amtrak between Milwaukee and Chicago we had 7 departures a day and plenty of passengers. When the number of trains was cut by 1 round trip, the numbers decreased. then came the genius of having only 4 round trips one year account "funding." You could have carried the total nimber of passengers on a switch engine. The store has to be open longer than one hour a day. Mitch
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