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[quote user="YoHo1975"]The RPO car subsidized the cost of passenger trains they ran on allowing the railroads to lower the price of passenger tickets while maintaining profitable service. [/quote]   I don’t think that is a subsidy.  The RPO is one contract, and the passenger business is another contract.  If you say that the RPO subsidized the passenger business, by the same logic, you could say that the passenger business subsidized the RPO. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p> If the RPO income allowed the railroads to lower their passenger fares, why would they lower their passenger fares?  Why not leave the passenger fares where they would be without the RPO income?  Why give up part of the fare income?  <o:p></o:p> By your analysis, if the RPO allowed railroads to lower passenger fares and still make a profit, and if the railroads did that, then what it would amount is this:   The government would be subsidizing the railroads, and the railroads would be passing the subsidy through to the passengers.  Therefore, according to your analysis, the railroad would not be receiving a government subsidy, as you contend they were.  So you have disproved your own assertion by your explanation of it.
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