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How about privatizing Amtrak sleepers or diners?

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<p>[quote user="Dakguy201"]</p> <p> </p> <blockquote> <div><img src="/TRCCS/Themes/trc/images/icon-quote.gif" /> <strong>Sam1:</strong></div> <div> <p> </p> <p>{snip}  </p> <p>As I remember it Pullman bailed out of the sleeping car business because it was losing its shirt.  And the railroads got out of the passenger business because it was killing them financially.    </p> <p> {snip}</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p> </p> </div> </blockquote> <p> </p> <p>That is not quite how it happened.  In 1940 the Feds brought an antitrust suit against Pullman in federal court in Philadephia.  As a result of that action, the court ordered Pullman to get out of either the car construction business or the car ownership and operation business.  The upshot was that ownership and operation was sold to a new company jointly owned by 40-odd railroads.   [/quote]</p> <p>Thanks for the insight.  Nevertheless, if I remember correctly, the company that was jointly owned by the 40 odd railroads folded in the early to mid 60s and those railroads that still hoisted sleeping cars took over their operation.  Is this not correct?  Also, what was the name of the company that was owned by the railroads and operating the sleeping cars post 1940?</p>
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