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"This shows Amtrak has no plans beyond the status-quo - plus or minus a sleeper or two."   The same attitude was shown when Amtrak decided not to challenge UP's cost estimate of $700 million to allow the Texas Eagle to run daily from San Antonio (SA) to LAX.   Amtrak could have cancelled the three day a week Sunset Limited and run the Eagle as a through train on the same three day a week schedule.  And it could have implemented a SA to New Orleans day train to connect with the Eagle, again on a three day a week schedule. Instead it opted to continue the current arrangement, other than to adjust the schedule of the Eagle and Limited to reduce the dwell time in SA. To protect against a late running eastbound Limited, Amtrak parks a sleeper and coach in SA.  I don't know how many times it has been used, but my guess is not often.  For a company that is supposedly short of equipment, this does not appear to be a good outcome. If Amtrak must be in the long distance train (a mistake), it should strive to achieve the best outcome possible. Not likely to happen for a large bureaucracy that has a monopoly on intercity passenger rail.
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