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<p>[quote user="Bucyrus"]</p> <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size:small;">That article strikes me as being oddly ambiguous.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes;"> </span>Why in the world would the class ones want back into passenger service after wanting so bad to get out of it?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes;"> </span>And if they really want back in, why don’t they just go ahead and do it?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;mso-fareast-font-family:'Times New Roman';mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size:small;">I get the impression that what is really on the table is replacing Amtrak with private operators such as the class ones, but still subsidizing the whole operation at a loss with public funding.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes;"> </span>Maybe under that model, the class ones would be clambering to get back in.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes;"> </span>But even that seems a stretch.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes;"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes;"> </span></span></p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p>if they do restart this passenger service, they would have to pay quite a good amount of money to upgrade or construct stations (if need to) and redo their train schedule to fit a passenger service inbetween freight runs.</p>
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