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What law(s) compelled the railroads to offer passenger services?   I agree with your assessment of cash flows, inadequate returns, and alternative opportunities. Other than in a government bureaucracy, who in their right mind would compel a private business to offer a service that was pushing the business to the brink of extinction? If Amtrak had not been created, what provision of the law would have prevented the railroads from proceeding with the train off petitions until all the trains had been discontinued? At one point the PRR wanted to discontinue the Clevelander.  I don't remember the dates. The regulator said no dice.  So the railroad pared it down to a P70 coach (I rode it from New York to Altoona) and one sleeper.  Subsequently, as I remember it, the railroad was able to convince the regulator that the train was losing money.
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