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Re: Saving Amtrak-Opportunity for polemics, or effective action?
Author: History Buff
Date: 03-20-2017 - 19:05
Seldom scene Wrote:
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> This gives me an opportunity to get your input on
> something I've always wondered do you think it
> would have been better to choose the routes that
> were worth subsidizing and let the railroads
> continue to operate them ?i was lucky enough to
> have ridden several of the great long distance
> trains before Amtrak and I can tell you even in
> the declining years it was much better than what
> we have now or was Biaginni right when he said the
> long distance train is dead and no amount of
> prayer or wishful thinking will bring it back
> ,railpax will be a loosing enterprise throughout
> its entire life. Your opinions would be
> appreciated,thanks
I think if you rode Penn Central passenger trains and those of some other lines (including some of SP's trains), you would conclude that what we have now is superior to the service provided in the years just before Amtrak was created.
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> This gives me an opportunity to get your input on
> something I've always wondered do you think it
> would have been better to choose the routes that
> were worth subsidizing and let the railroads
> continue to operate them ?i was lucky enough to
> have ridden several of the great long distance
> trains before Amtrak and I can tell you even in
> the declining years it was much better than what
> we have now or was Biaginni right when he said the
> long distance train is dead and no amount of
> prayer or wishful thinking will bring it back
> ,railpax will be a loosing enterprise throughout
> its entire life. Your opinions would be
> appreciated,thanks
I think if you rode Penn Central passenger trains and those of some other lines (including some of SP's trains), you would conclude that what we have now is superior to the service provided in the years just before Amtrak was created.
