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[quote user="RayG8"] Ia there any reason that AMTRAK can't propose a contracted service? Maybe something along the Pullman model? Seems to me that running a railroad and running a rolling restaurant are two very different business. Let the private concern determine the level of service, quality of food  etc. [/quote] The biggest reason, as has been discussed in other threads, is a bureaucratic mind set. I don't know many bureaucrats who get high marks for innovation. People who work for large organizations, i.e. hospitals, universities, corporations, etc. are bureaucrats just like their government counterparts.  But there is one big difference.  At least corporate bureaucrats have to face competition.  If they don't innovate, ie. do things better, faster, cheaper, eventually they will be out of business.  But Amtrak, which is a government owned bureaucracy, has no competitive pressures.  Therefore, it has little incentive to change. Moreover, it is hobbled by politics.
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