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[quote user="blue streak 1"] There is a lot of postings mentioning the subsidity that freight RRs provide AMTRAK. Now how about the subsidity that AMTRAK and state governments provide the freight RRs? A partial list of those items are -- A.  All of these items help the freights to lower per diem payments for foreign cars, reduce crew on duty times, allow more consistent speeds saving fuel, serve customers by more reliable and quicker service.  1.  Downeaster route --  Pan Am RR 2. Wooster - Boston  --  CSX route 3. Albany - New York  --  CSX to be completed 4.  WASH - Richmond  --  CSX  additional tracks that are useable overnight and some in mid day. 5.  Richmond - Selma  --  new cross overs to be installed making for more fluidity. 6.  Charlotte - Selma  --  NS  has gained much operational flexibility on this route. 7.  West Palm beach  --   Mia  CSX has good track that they run over day and night 8.  A biggie  Chicago - St Louis  --  the potential for UP  using this route for intermodals will be great.  9.  Everette - Seattle - Portland  --  BNSF  gets additional passing tracks and bi - directional signaling. B.  A question --  do the freight RRs have to pay for useage of these improvements when they use them or all the improvements folded into the RR's charging of AMTRAK and the various agencies? [/quote] Do you have any financial data to support your argument?
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