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Mike: Yes. And many Amtrak defenders I see out there say "but train travel is priceless" etc. etc. but they forget that our wallets aren't priceless. I think, again, volume is the cause. A jet plane MUST cost more to operate than an equivelant passenger train (or am I wrong????? Any pilots out there???). But Airlines can and do make OPERATIONAL money... enough that they can justify issuing stocks and bonds.... Course, goin from Mpls to Maryland would entail, what? three trains with two transfers? Up here in the NW, the short distance corridors are much better- about $35 for Portland-Seattle. Portland-Vancouver BC was $75 or so... but again volume cuts in: there's only ONE TRAIN between Seattle and Vancouver, so anyone commin from Portland can't make a connection; they have to stay overnight, raising the trip costs by about $100 or more. This distance could be driven in a day, even in bad traffic!
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