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Amtrak cancels Empire Builder out of fear of Xanto

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[quote user="VerMontanan"] Those who scoff at the utility of once daily service in areas like this only display their ignorance.[/quote] Not ignorance, just a different opinion. There are lots of people living between the Empire Builder's and California Zephyr's routes. They have to get along without train service and it seems to work. The Empire Builder might be convenient but necessary? Than others would need trains too. When the train is necessary, there are better solutions than LD trains with their in some places more than inconvenient departure and arrival times, the impossibility to get somewhere and back in the same day. When the Empire Builder was inaugurated in 1929 there was no other comfortable mode of transportation to connect Chicago with the Pacific Northwest.  Today by air is much faster, so passengers going the whole way are most likely tourists. Local people would be better served with different corridors and more frequent service. But then you are getting in conflict with freight railroads. To get back to the topic: I find it exaggerated to complain that a once daily train was cancelled for few days. The times and with your legal landscape has changed. With todays granted damages, material and immaterial, I understand the decision. Granted damages in Germany are only a fracture of those in the USA, but it seems better to avoidany. As I said before DB shut down the whole system with approx. 25,000 passenger trains daily three times in 2017 affecting 11.9 people daily. Were weren't lucky as the trains are needed for our daily chores. Foresight is better than hindsight. Regards, Volker
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