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[quote user="blue streak 1"] [quote user="Sam1"] What we know is that Penn Central hoisted the Metroliners between New York and Washington from 1969 to 1971.  The service stared on January 16, 1969, nearly 2.5 years before the coming of Amtrak, with some funding provided through the High Speed Ground Transportation Act of 1965.   The best time from New York to Washington was 2 hours and 59 minutes.  By the summer of 1969 the service was hoisting at least four round trips per day, including one non-stop, and they were apparently well patronized, thanks in part of a strike at Eastern Airlines that shut down the shuttle. [/quote] SAM: Sorry but the only Eastern strike during that time was July - August 1966. Metroliner service was not that good after the strike.  [/quote] "During the prolonged labor strike at Eastern Shuttle many passengers defected to the Metroliner service."  This sentence was taken from a Wikipedia article on the Metroliner.  The author may have been incorrect. According to another post on this subject, the Metroliner covered its out of pocket operating costs, which is the case for the Acela and NEC regional trains.  The NEC is the only passenger rail service in the U.S., outside of a few tourist operations, as well as three of the other corridors trains, that covered its operating costs during FY 2008.  The NEC covered its operating costs and made a substantial contribution to the capital costs associated with the NEC. The key point is that the Metroliner was up and running approximately 2.5 years before the coming of Amtrak.  It lends creditability to the argument that an NEC might have survived the dismemberment of passenger rail if the government had not taken it over through the formation of Amtrak. Those who think that corridor rail would not have emerged, as the nation grew, might want to keep these examples in mind.  Trinity Rail was implemented between Dallas and Fort Worth without any help from the federal government or Amtrak.  And next month commuter rail will begin operating in the Austin area, again with no help from the federal or state governments.
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