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Amtrak cancels Empire Builder out of fear of Xanto

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<p></p> <div><span lang="EN-US">I don’t understand the excitement that the Empire Builder was cancelled, one train that runs once daily.<br /><br /></span></div> <div><span lang="EN-US">Here in Germany Deutsche Bahn (DB) had an advertisement in the 1990s saying <em>Everyone talks about weather, we don’t.</em> </span></div> <div><span lang="EN-US"><br />That has changed over the years and in 2017 heavy storms shut down the complete DB system three times. Each time it took up to a week to clean  tracks of fallen trees, repair catenary, and get back to normal.<br /><br /></span></div> <div><span lang="EN-US">About 24,000 daily passenger trains were canceled affecting about 11.9 million passengers. Most of these people need the train for their daily life, like getting to work.<br />   </span></div> <div><span lang="EN-US">DB overlooked that small trees grow and at one point a large enough to destroy the catenary when falling. With the high train frequency you can be sure that trains are stopped somewhere or worse get hit by a tree.<br /><br /> </span></div> <div><span lang="EN-US">Cutting the trees isn’t that easy anymore with all the environmentalists.<br /><br /></span></div> <div><span lang="EN-US">For the USA I think Jeff had it right. For each passenger there is almost the same number of lawyers waiting for something to happen. And the trains are very seldom needed for daily life.<br /> Regards, Volker</span></div>
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