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[quote user="oltmannd"]   <blockquote> <div><img src="/TRCCS/Themes/trc/images/icon-quote.gif" /> ComradeTaco:</div> <div>   Sam Regardless, no company would want to take up competition against subsidized alternatives. No company would want Amtrak.   </div> </blockquote>   You are right.  But, lets bid out piece of Amtrak where the winner gets to own and control everything (and keep the revenue).  Guy who needs the smallest subsidy wins. Think anybody could underbid Amtrak?  They are getting underbid everywhere in the commuter operation contract arena.  I suspect the same players partnered up with the right people would do the same. How about Herzog plus Marriott running all the western LD trains? [/quote] This is the scheme followed by the Australians with the Great Southern Railway, which is a stockholder company that operates the Indian Pacific, Ghan, and Overland. Winning and keeping the contract was and is predicated on keeping the subsidy at the lowest level reasonable. The level of service on these trains is heads and shoulders above the level of service on Amtrak.
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