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[quote user="oltmannd"] [quote user="Sam1"]I have never heard Boardman or any advocate of the long distance trains speak to the opportunity costs associated with maintaining them. In its publications Amtrak has from time to time claimed that the savings would not be great, although it offers no substantiation for its view.[/quote] Talking about the opportunity costs of LD trains would be fanning the flames I think he wants to extinguish. To paraphrase, he has said,  "Here they are.  Here's what they do. Here's what they cost.  Now pay or don't pay, but lets stop talking about them and start talking about how we are going to fix and grow the NEC and other corridors."  [/quote] Agreed!  I wonder whether the men and women who led the railroad business out of the dark ages, i.e. helped bring about deregulation and then reshaped the industry to make what it is today, would have shrunk from telling the Congress that the malaise that afflicted the railroads was ugly and had to change?
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