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Re: Amtrak Impeachment
Author: J.K. Trowling
Date: 03-30-2018 - 04:58

Sgt. Joe Friday Wrote:
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>
> If Amtrak doesn't want to run specials or
> charters, what is to stop someone else from
> contracting with the freight railroads to do this?
> Does the law that gives Amtrak its monopoly on
> intercity passenger rail extend to specials,
> excursions, and so on?

One word - INSURANCE. The host railroads where mainline excursions were run by these historical societies and other small organizations required multi-million dollar policies these organizations could never afford, and they operated under Amtrak's umbrella liability policy. That won't be available now.

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