SAM1 is on the right track. According to the May 2014 Amtrak performance report the NEC is growing much more than the rest of the system. Both State and LD riders decreased with about the same revenue as last year.
Acela showed a big increase especially north of NYP of 25%. That number has to be tempered by last year's shutdown due to the MNRR derailment. South of NYP increase was 5% but the new MARC weekend service took approximately 10,000+ riders off system. Included would also be NEC regional numbers.
Acela had 12,000 fewer riders than the Oct 2013 record and had 8 days of over 14,000 riders. Revenue for May was $1.6M above Oct 2013.
NEC regional riders were down 7,000 but revenue up $3.2M probably due to longer trips ?.
See below report pages A3.2- A3.3
http://www.amtrak.com/ccurl/848/146/Amtrak-Monthly-Performance-Report-May-2014.pdf
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