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James: You might be right there. Passenger trains were often run as an example of what the road could do for freight routing, and as advertising, and also, as you say, for LCL/Mail/Express. I don't know that it is necessery to REDUCE airline and road dollars to get Amtrak to parity.... unless you are just suggesting to keep overall USDOT spending the same, but re-allocate it. Here is one of the benefits of privatization: Like airlines, you'd have a lobby group of insutrialists pushing against the truck.auto lobby and the air lobby, hopefully balancing out the distribution of funds. Whereas Amtrak has little or no pull, as the money they would theoretically throw around comes directly from those who it would be thrown at- Congress. However i do not claim privatiziaton is the magic bullet. only that it might result in better rail lobbying. Mm.. politcally oriented trains? Never! However, it is MY understanding that the Short corridors were more profitable.... speaking not of the NE corridor, but of Cascades and of CalTrans. (Course it's all realative... who really has the deinitive numbers, anyway? Probably not even Amtrak!) While you may like a break from your car, you must admit that, because of it's unfixed route, it is more flexible, and therefore will remain the primary choice for most corridors, and for most vacationers on a budget. Regards to the Professional Dilettante, From an Amateur Troublemaker, Alexander Craghead
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