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Amtrak's FY 2008 Key Performance Numbers

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[quote user="beaulieu"]Sam can you link to the exact report you are discussing. Also what are Amtrak's expenses for maintaining the NEC per year. [/quote] The information regarding Amtrak's operations and financials is drawn from a variety of reports that are available at <A href="http://www.amtrak.com/">http://www.amtrak.com/</A>.  Click on Inside Amtrak at the bottom of the home page, then Annual Reports and Consolidated Financial Statements for audited numbers and Other Reports for current operating and financial data.  In addition, I draw information from the annual legislative reports, business plans, President's reports to Congress, etc.  Frankly, one should be interested in numbers crunching to wade through the reports.  Some training in accounting and finance, especially cost accounting, is helpful to draw the proper conclusions from the data presented. Amtrak's expenses and capital expenditures are broken out by activity as opposed to region.  Therefore, it is difficult to know from the public information how much money is spent maintaining the NEC.  Having said that, in July 2007 Alex Kummant told the Congress that Amtrak had spent $352 million to enhance or maintain the NEC in 2006.  Moreover, he said that Amtrak had spent $1.36 billion in capital expenditures on the NEC between 2003 and 2006.   Amtrak probably knows to the dollar how much it spends to maintain the NEC, but it does not make the information available in the reports that it releases through its website.  Amtrak does not own the whole NEC.  It owns 363 of the 457 miles between Washington and Boston.  Thus, to get the capital expenditures, as well as maintenance expenses, for the NEC, one would have to get the financial statements and operating reports for the minor partners.   I'll keep looking.
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