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What he may be really saying is "Until the next Presidential election". <br /> <br />I saw an interesting documentary on the PBS educational channel a few days ago on the S.P Daylight trains. These were amoung the most heavily patronized and profitable passenger trains in the country for the first dozen years they ran. They started to loose money around 1950, well before the Interstates were built and in-expensive air travel became available. S.P. didn't throw in the towel immediately and tried a number of things including full length domes, replacing the diners with auto-mat vending machine cars, and a large advertising campaign, but nothing worked. <br /> <br />A number of other railroads didn't give up immediately on passenger service either and these were the days of good connections, frequent service, and 1950's labor costs. The Daylight could be considered a corridor train and I believe the western LD trains such as the CZ remained profitable during the summer months quite a bit longer(1960?). The point is, a number of remedies suggested for making Amtrak break-even were tried by at least some of the railroads and they didn't work.
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