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[quote user="oltmannd"] Good video!  Joe's a good cheerleader .  (Still not a fan of all those new baggage cars....) <img src="/emoticons/emotion-14.gif" alt="Devil" /> [/quote] Good cheerleader!  Perhaps!  Fast and loose with facts!  Yep! Amtrak's long distance trains connect America!  Really!  Here are the major cities (population of 100,000+) that are overlooked in Texas:  Abilene, Amarillo, Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Denton, Killeen, Laredo, Lubbock, McAllen, McKinney, Midland, Odessa, and Wichita Falls.  Drop it down a notch, i.e. to 50,000, and you get a lot more cities not served by Amtrak. And this is just in Texas. Add in the other states, and the claim that Amtrak's long distance trains are an important link in the U.S.'s national transportation system is over the top.   Irrespective of the color scheme, the new cars will increase Amtrak's depreciation expense and may acerbate the losses incurred by the long distance trains. The key question is whether the new equipment will generate greater marginal revenues than marginal expenses?
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