by VPayne
My contention is that for whatever reason Amtrak continues to reduce equipment operated in day to day service. Most of the route miles are the same but the actual service offered for purchase over those routes is much lower and much less valuable without adequate connections and poor timing from revised schedules. To that extent it is quite difficult to determine through accounting measures what is going on with the trains as you do not have a recorded amount of service being offered during the different years.
If I operated a steel mill I would not just report my revenue and cost without output. Amtrak should do the same. Car miles by type is the only measurement that I can think of the match the nature of passengers trains. We on this board try to figure out if the "Sleeping Car Only" report includes the coach portion of the fare and we cannot as Amtrak does not report the number of cars open for service on each train or portion thereof or single vs double occupancy of rooms.
If I operated a steel mill I would not just report my revenue and cost without output. Amtrak should do the same. Car miles by type is the only measurement that I can think of the match the nature of passengers trains. We on this board try to figure out if the "Sleeping Car Only" report includes the coach portion of the fare and we cannot as Amtrak does not report the number of cars open for service on each train or portion thereof or single vs double occupancy of rooms.