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Thanks for the proposal to kill off passenger service to my area completely. There's a reason why the company you propose to buy the routes, Metro-North calls itself a commuter railroad. It's to carry the most people in the quickest time <i>to</i> their jobs and <i>back</i> home at the end of the day. Sure commuter lines may run 1300 trains a day. Short distance, local trains carrying packed cars. Twice daily. If the numbers game means anything, maybe the Yellow Cab Company should buy Amtrak. NYC taxi cabs probably make 100s of thousands of trips a day. <br /> <br />Precious few commuters are making the daily trip from the Northern Adirondacks to NYC and if Metro-North would ever consider your suggestion, it would be to acquire trackage and a few key stations above Poughkeepsie, NY. The rest would be abandoned in a heartbeat. Certainly not much above Albany would survive. All this ignores the fact that rail service north of Dutchess County is outside the scope of Metro-North's charter. <br /> <br />I have strong doubts that the State of New York would pay Amtrak for the rights to subsidize a "Black Hole" as you call our route. <br /> <br />Let Amtrak buy the new cars you want at someone elses expense. <br /> <br />Wayne
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