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Ed: Love your last paragraph. Free market indeed! It seems strange that this country can produce some of the finest stuff on earth with the free market system, but can't run a decent train. I think recently that Trains ran a story about Intermodal not making as much money per car as carload, since it's time sensitive, but was the fastest growing segment. To make money, you had to be both fast and run as high a volume as you can. The estimate was a revenue of $8000 per "car" (well doulbe stacked.) Now take a coach full of, what, 100 seats on a Superliner? that's make a ticket $80 per seat. Not too bad, huh? And on sleepers, with about 30 passengers, what? $300 per? Heck these prices are TOO low, for the most part. And service costs go down the more coaches you run. Seems to me service at least comparable to Airline travel is available at break even. We just need to get these defeatists out of the Amtrak managment.
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