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[quote user="V.Payne"] BWI is an alright station. I used it about a month ago when going to 30th street on a Regional as well. Generally for me the limit is a bit over 750-900 miles for a train trip be it overnight or daytime so Southwest does indeed work from there. The regional I was on was literally completely sold out, middle of the week, about 2 PM. One guy walked around looking for the last seat. They could easily be running 14 car regional trains and filling them it seems. [/quote] Must have been a bit unusual. The average load factor on the NEC regional trains in 2012 was 48.3 per cent.  To be sure, the load factor can vary significantly from day to day and segment to segment, but I am hard pressed to believe that the capacity constraints on the NEC are as great as some claim. The average load factor on the Acela during 2012 was 62.5 per cent. It would be nice to see the load factors for each day and each segment of the NEC for a year.  In 2008 I asked Dallas Area Rapid Transit for the load factor for each of its bus and rail routes.  I never believed that they would give it to me.  They did.  I got each route as well as every bus and train for the first half of 2007. The even sent me the data on Excel spreadsheets.  Now I am testing my luck again.  I have filed a Freedom of Information Request with Amtrak for similar information on the NEC.  It will be interesting to see what I get.
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