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[quote user="henry6"] Sam, you are assuming it will be a heavily subsidized non profit but it probably won't be. [/quote] I did not say anything about non-profits as far as I can remember.  Every regularly scheduled passenger railroad in the world, as far as I know, is subsidized in one way or another.  There is no reason to believe that passenger rail in the United States could survive without subsidies irrespective of the form of ownership. Nonprofits or not for profits are beset with many problems.  They don't get a free pass.  Again, no one has said why the United States should subsidize passenger rail to the extent that it does.  The subsidies required for passenger rail are many times those afforded to commercial air and commercial highway users.   What is so scared about passenger rail that the country needs to prop it up, especially the long distance trains that serve a very small percentage of intercity travelers?  And especially in light of the many other needs besetting the country?
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