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Re: The big ax just fell. Long distance to 3x/week.

 by SouthernRailway ¦  Sun Jun 21, 2020 5:15 pm ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: The big ax just fell. Long distance to 3x/week. ¦  Replies: 504 ¦  Views: 61946

Everyone, I'm very disappointed in the behavior I've seen from a participant in railroad.net today. It's too bad that people with a shared interest in something cannot discuss something in a civil manner. I'm not interested in taking part in a community that allows the behavior that I've seen today....

Re: The big ax just fell. Long distance to 3x/week.

 by SouthernRailway ¦  Sun Jun 21, 2020 4:50 pm ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: The big ax just fell. Long distance to 3x/week. ¦  Replies: 504 ¦  Views: 61946

@John_Perkowski, when you took Brightline, what did you think of it? Did you go in Smart or Select class? What did you think of the staff and the stations, too? How did you like it compared to Amtrak? Edited to add: Canadian National also operates this: http://www.agawatrain.com/the-train/ It seems ...

Re: The big ax just fell. Long distance to 3x/week.

 by SouthernRailway ¦  Sun Jun 21, 2020 4:47 pm ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: The big ax just fell. Long distance to 3x/week. ¦  Replies: 504 ¦  Views: 61946

I agree with Pennsyfan. Canadian Pacific and Brightline both run passenger trains. Plenty of other for-profit companies do around the world, even though in most cases they get government funding of some type. Well, first BRIGHTLINE IS NOT RUNNING So, your dog does not hunt. Even today, Amtrak is ru...

Re: The big ax just fell. Long distance to 3x/week.

 by SouthernRailway ¦  Sun Jun 21, 2020 3:53 pm ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: The big ax just fell. Long distance to 3x/week. ¦  Replies: 504 ¦  Views: 61946

I agree with Pennsyfan. Canadian Pacific and Brightline both run passenger trains. Plenty of other for-profit companies do around the world, even though in most cases they get government funding of some type. The US is one of the few First World (are we still?) countries where the national passenger...

Re: The big ax just fell. Long distance to 3x/week.

 by SouthernRailway ¦  Sun Jun 21, 2020 12:25 pm ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: The big ax just fell. Long distance to 3x/week. ¦  Replies: 504 ¦  Views: 61946

The alternative would have been to focus the spending on building a true HSR system and have the Federal government, or a friendly state, do it. We didn't get that. Nor did Amtrak get much of anything in the Northeast. The 110 mph running in central Connecticut on the newly double tracked Hartford ...

Re: The big ax just fell. Long distance to 3x/week.

 by SouthernRailway ¦  Sun Jun 21, 2020 11:35 am ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: The big ax just fell. Long distance to 3x/week. ¦  Replies: 504 ¦  Views: 61946

Seems like there's a Trump version of the truth going on here. Or maybe short memories. Obama / Biden started billions of $$ of rail spending, curtailed by lack of really shovel ready projects, then Republican success in the 2010 mid terms , and some key ( to the rail projects)governor elections. h...

Re: The big ax just fell. Long distance to 3x/week.

 by SouthernRailway ¦  Fri Jun 19, 2020 9:30 am ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: The big ax just fell. Long distance to 3x/week. ¦  Replies: 504 ¦  Views: 61946

If ridership on LD trains is THAT bad, why not just do a promotion and sell a number of tickets per train for $1 each or give them away for free? If seats would otherwise be empty, what’s the loss? Amtrak could probably win some friends on Capitol Hill by cutting its police budget and putting the sa...

Re: The big ax just fell. Long distance to 3x/week.

 by SouthernRailway ¦  Thu Jun 18, 2020 5:31 pm ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: The big ax just fell. Long distance to 3x/week. ¦  Replies: 504 ¦  Views: 61946

Here they come:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... spartandhp

Amtrak is surely counting the days.

Re: The big ax just fell. Long distance to 3x/week.

 by SouthernRailway ¦  Thu Jun 18, 2020 7:12 am ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: The big ax just fell. Long distance to 3x/week. ¦  Replies: 504 ¦  Views: 61946

Let's please remember that current LD routes USED to be corridors. For example, Washington-Atlanta used to have a slew of trains on it: some expresses, some mid-grade and some locals. Back in the 1950s and even the 1960s, it was the equivalent of today's corridors. Many of the LD routes could be cor...

Re: Amtrak on-board employee: is there a rule book?

 by SouthernRailway ¦  Wed Jun 17, 2020 1:07 pm ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: Amtrak on-board employee: is there a rule book? ¦  Replies: 11 ¦  Views: 2439

Thanks. I found the name card in my room to be such a nice touch that I'm not going to gripe about that. I wrote Amtrak with some positive, constructive suggestions about Flexible Dining breakfasts a few weeks ago. I never heard back. The staff on the Crescent is generally very nice. We're all human...

Re: The big ax just fell. Long distance to 3x/week.

 by SouthernRailway ¦  Wed Jun 17, 2020 10:23 am ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: The big ax just fell. Long distance to 3x/week. ¦  Replies: 504 ¦  Views: 61946

I would think that Amtrak's mentality, having repeatedly learned this lesson the hard way, would be to prepare for the worst, no matter which party is in the White House.

Re: The big ax just fell. Long distance to 3x/week.

 by SouthernRailway ¦  Tue Jun 16, 2020 5:12 pm ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: The big ax just fell. Long distance to 3x/week. ¦  Replies: 504 ¦  Views: 61946

First, this is pretty terrible but also expected. Second, this sounds like something of an opportunity. Perhaps Amtrak would consider keeping the opposite-day schedule for part of their routes - for instance CHI-MSP and DAL-SAN - and also running a half-distance Capitol Limited WAS-CLE interchangin...

Re: The big ax just fell. Long distance to 3x/week.

 by SouthernRailway ¦  Tue Jun 16, 2020 11:50 am ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: The big ax just fell. Long distance to 3x/week. ¦  Replies: 504 ¦  Views: 61946

I'm not seeing any benefit from killing off LD trains. If the NEC were reduced to one train a day in each direction over its entire length, would there be justification for eliminating that train? No. Same for LD trains. I will be affected by a reduction in Crescent service, but if ridership doesn't...

Re: The big ax just fell. Long distance to 3x/week.

 by SouthernRailway ¦  Tue Jun 16, 2020 10:52 am ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: The big ax just fell. Long distance to 3x/week. ¦  Replies: 504 ¦  Views: 61946

Absolutely outrageous. This is clearly an attempt to either extort more money from congress Well, good. With legitimately worthwhile programs demanding money to avoid service reductions, maybe Congress would stop throwing away money on everything else and finally spend on something that's actually ...

Re: The big ax just fell. Long distance to 3x/week.

 by SouthernRailway ¦  Tue Jun 16, 2020 7:32 am ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: The big ax just fell. Long distance to 3x/week. ¦  Replies: 504 ¦  Views: 61946

I'd rather have 3x trains per day per LD route, but 3x per week is better than 0x per week.

When I've taken the Crescent recently, there have been very few passengers and I'd guess that fares don't even cover employee wages.

Amtrak is broke. The US is broke. What choice does Amtrak have?

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