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[quote user="V.Payne"] The paper refers to independent references stretching back nine decades. I just summarize things in these blog posts and send readers to the link for more information. [/quote] More information according to your perspectives, which don't strike me as being realistic.   Speaking of your paper.  Has it been published?  Has it been presented to a peer group?   You seem to be saying that all Amtrak would have to do to improve the results generated by long distance passenger trains in the U.S. is to increase capacity People would flock to them, at least by implication.   History suggests otherwise.  Following WWII America's railroad managements invested a lot of money in new passenger train equipment.  The investment, if restated in constant dollars, probably is equal to several billion 2014 dollars.  They produced some of the best passenger trains in the world at the time.  Maybe some of the best ever! They were sure that Americans would flock to them.  They were wrong. And it was all over by 1960 - 1965. Americans chose cars and airplanes for well known reasons, i.e. comfort, convenience, dependability, privacy, speed, etc. There is a history lesson here.  Outside of a few high density corridors, there is no market for passenger trains.   You could double or triple the capacity of passenger trains.  People are not going to ride them.  That is the lesson of history that the nation's railroad managements learned from their post WWII efforts to reinvent the long passenger train.
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