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[quote user="oltmannd"] [quote user="Sam1"] The Great Southern Railway in Australia has taken a different approach to Australia's major long distance trains.  For most of the year, for example, there is enough traffic to run the Ghan from Adelaide to Darwin one day a week.  But during the winter months, when Aussies head north for the warmer climate in Darwin, the train runs twice a week.   The Great Southern Railway is a stock company.  Its operations are subsidized by the federal government, but it must earn a return for its investors. Thus the flexibility of scheduling the trains in accordance with market demand.  What a novel idea! [/quote] A good idea if you can find something else for the equipment to do while it would be otherwise idle.  At  the extreme, you wouldn't size your fleet for the day before Thanksgiving only to have 15% of your fleet sit idle for the other 364 days of the year. [/quote] With the exception of the locomotives, all the equipment used by The Great Southern Railway is from the 1950s.  It was built in Australia under license from Budd.  It is fully depreciated.  Of course, it would be more effective  if the equipment could be better utilized, but it does not carry the same financial burdens as new equipment.
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