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[quote user="BaltACD"] So the consensus of all this back and forth posturing is Everybody pays for everything and nobody pays for nothing! If anybody or anything had a viable idea and the resources to pull it off to make rail passenger service in the US a profit producing entity - it would have already been done. <div style="clear:both;"></div> [/quote] Yes, that´s it in a nut shell! History shows us, that only very few railroads were built with passenger service in mind. Railroads always relied on the revenues from freight services. Even in the days, when railroads had a quasi monopoly, passenger services hardly earned their keep. It is said, that in the 1840´s, the King of Prussia turned down a proposal to build a state-owned line from Berlin to Potsdam with the words "no need to be in Potsdam an hour earlier". In most European countries, railways since then have been regarded as a necessary public utility for the welfare of the people, and thus have invested substantial amounts of tax money into their systems. Most attempts to privatize railroads were not made to turn railroads into profit-making entities, but to reduce the amount of public funding.
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