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[quote user="Phoebe Vet"] You will never make a route profitable running one train a day, any more than a road would be efficient running one truck a day.  It is an inefficient use of the required support infrastruture and personnel.Perhaps a better system would be 5 trains a day.  Three two or three car trains that stop at every other telephone pole, giving train service to all the little communities along the way, and two longer trains between them that run flat out and stop only at the large cities.  While technically a long distance train, the local would actually be a series of short routes that happen to use the same equipment.  You could probably get the states to participate in the funding of the local for the portion that serves their particular communities.  Or even encourage the states to run local trains themselves withing their own states that would serve the purpose above instead of Amtrak running the local.Airlines do that.  The aircraft and crew change flight numbers and travel to a different airport.[/quote]Three to five trains a day could provide a decent service.  The key question is whether the service area population is large enough to support them, i.e pay the fares to cover at least the operating costs, with the states picking up the capital costs.  Outside of the present corridors, with a few exceptions, I don't think there are many high density corridors that could support three to five passenger trains a day.  That, of course, is likely to change as the population of the United States increases.
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