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[quote user="schlimm"] I am very serious.  The EB's performance in nice weather isn't good either.  In Jan. 2010, it lost more money than this terrible January.  There are very few LD trains that can be justified on any basis.  They lose far more money than corridor services by all metrics.  They can never be competitive with air because of length of route and speed.  Given the limited resources available, the money spent on LD trains would be much better spent in short corridors.  Look at it this way.  Jan. 2011, Amtrak lost $218.5 mil., $200 mil from long distance routes (91.5%).                                    Jan. passengers: total 2,126,000; LD routes 324,000 (15.2%) So operations for 15.2% of passengers carried generates 91.5% of the loss.  To me (and probably most of the public) that is a waste. [/quote] Amen!  Most of the nearly $30 billion that has been lost by Amtrak since its inception can be attributed to the long distance trains.  Had they been discontinued upon Amtrak's formation, more money, at least in theory, would have been available to develop the corridors where passenger rail makes sense.
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