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[quote user="Alan F"] [quote user="Sam1"] I have read the performance improvement plan for the Crescent as well as the Sunset Limited and Texas Eagle.  The plans look good.  Have any of the recommended improvements been implemented? [/quote] The plan for a daily Sunset Limited was blocked by UP which demanded a lot of money, reportedly enough to pay for the remaining double tracking of the LA to El Paso route. Amtrak, my guess is for political reasons, decided not to pick a fight with UP this time around, did get UP to agree to shift the 3 day a week SL schedule to roughly match that in the SL PIP report in return for not asking for a daily SL for 2 years. The SL schedule was changed in May. [/quote] Amtrak improved the Texas Eagle through schedule by reducing the dwell time in San Antonio, although it is still too long.  From my perspective Amtrak just tweaked the schedule. Amtrak could have dropped the SL, run the Texas Eagle through on a three day a week schedule, and implemented a three day a week coach train from New Orleans to San Antonio. Presumably the UP would not have cared since the load on its facilities would have been the same.    I don't know the inner workings of Amtrak.  Clearly, as a ward of the state, it comes under significant political pressure. Yet as noted by others participating on these forums, Amtrak's leadership does not appear to be very aggressive. Maybe Boardman is aggressive, and we just don't know it, but Fred Frailey, who supposedly has some inside knowledge, does not appear to think so.
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