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If Mr. Boardman is trying to kill off the long distance trains by reducing the number of passengers using them, he is not headed in the right direction. From FY09 through FY13 the number of long distance passengers increased from 4.2 million to 4.8 million or an increase of 13.2 per cent. The percentage of Amtrak's long distance passengers has remained fairly steady at 15.4% to 15.1%. The problem for the long distance trains, however, is that their costs have outstripped their revenues and, therefore, the loss before depreciation and interest has increased from $515.1 million in FY09 to $627.1 million in FY13 or an increase of 21.7 per cent. Based on what I have read on these forums, as well in other sources, many people seem to think that Boardman is trying to spin off the long distance trains to a separate entity and is not trying to kill them. Doing so would give Amtrak a decent shot at covering all of its operating costs and a substantial portion of its capital costs.
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