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[quote user="henry6"] So Sam, stop making Texas judgements on Illinois or New York or Pennsylvania truths. [/quote] As I make clear in most of my posts, references to Texas as examples are not necessarily meant to apply to the national passenger rail system.  They are examples.  Having said that, the cost and efficiency of staffing the stations in Texas is representative of the costs of staffing the stations throughout the country, including the states that you mentioned, where only one or two trains movements a day are common. Amtrak hoists 14 long distance trains on 11 routes.  Nine of the routes see only two train movements per day, whilst two of them only see at least one train movement four days per week.  Moreover of the 28 State Supported and Other Short Distance Corridor Trains, 12 of them operate wholly or partially over a route that only sees two train movements per day.  Thus, when examined closely, it is clear that the Texas example, when use to judge Amtrak's efficiencies, is more rather than less typical.
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