Re: Massive cuts to Amtrak: Trump
Author: George Jenista
Date: 06-15-2019 - 12:25
HUTCH 7.62 Wrote:
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> So why didn’t Amtrak buy up the old Milwaukee or
> Run trains on the Closed Tennessee pass? Were LD
> trains ever profitable enough for such route
> changes?
Fascinating question! When AMTRAK was born, it seemed that merger-mania resulted in widespread abandonment of what was considered duplicate or redundant track. I wonder if someone back then tried postulating the idea of dedicated passenger lines?
Here in the southern Plains, one wonders how Amtrak's network would developed if, say, ATSF's duplicate mainline thru Dallas, or their secondary main in south Kansas/Oklahoma, or competing routes between MOPAC & MKT still existed...