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Dear Walter I am not doing a thing to help Amtrak. It is and always has been a political boondogle. It serves no economic or social purpose. It is a large hidden tax on the freight railroads. If you read the Reform Councils report carefully you will see a statement to the effect that because non Amtrak passenger trains are carried at marginal cost, Amtrak is subsidizing the commuter operators to the tune of 4 of 5 Hundred Million dollars. This is why the ARC wants to separate infrastructure from train operations. The ARC, nor anyone else, has addressed the subsidy the freight railroads give Amtrak for the same reason, that is marginal costing vs full costing. The best we can hope for is that congress will kill this albatross. Mac
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