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You fail to mention whether the transcontinental trains are profitable. Are they? You took (and argue for) the train because you are a railfan not because it is faster, more convenient or less expensive.Where are the "city-center to city -center" stops after Denver, after Minneapolisor in...

Please produce the "facts"you say you possess on the Chicago to Denver and Chicago to Kansas City services. No bias here just realism.

So you are agreeing that service should be increased because more than a few hundred people a day are traveling between Chicago and Denver and Chicago and Kansas City?

You seem to be misunderstanding my posts. Where do I state that any of that equipment, i.e. Superliners, be used on the NEC? What I stated was "the 'center to center trains' can be operated with the equipment that is not being used on the transcontinentals.' I was referring to the heavily...

What do you base your money prognostications on? Are you privy to the inner financial workings of Amtrak or are you speculating? I stand by my statements that Amtrak can only compete in the 500 mile and under market and that transcontinental trains are dinosaurs and should be operated only in...

Enormous outlay of tax dollars for minimal results.

Absolutely, the 500 mile and under midtown to midtown market (large population centers) is the prime area for train transportation.

PTC is a fact of life, shoddy and inadequate training programs ensure that all railroads will eventually have it. Stations can be closed can they not? Thousands of folks close their homes in winter and head for warmer climes, this can also be done with stations. The equipment can also be stored...

Yes the monies could be reallocated to good use in the 500 mile and under market where trains with their midtown to midtown service can compete with the airlines. What infrastructure has to be maintained? The long distance trains are operated mainly on contract railroads.

How can you pronounce something false that was not said? Who said anything about automobiles versus trains? I miss the point? Please give examples of intermediate travel points/cities in North Dakota, Montana, Iowa , Nebraska for starters where intermediate travel warrants a transcontinental...

It does not cost that much to run long distance trains year round? There is a thread on here where a long distance train is 40 hours late is there not? I assume there are attendant expenses that are out of the norm i.e. bus transportation, refunds, hotel rooms etc. for those situations that...

Ah looking to be confrontational I see. There is a difference between speculation and conclusion. Look it up.

And you are...?

Good news, for the train crew anyway. My sources say wide gauge is the culprit.

Your signature states "These are my posts and opinions". Well these are my posts and opinions. Is there a problem with that?

It would seem, and this is pure speculation, that 2151 ran by the signal and in to the side of the NJT train.

No red herring there, you cannot compare Europe, Japan and the U.S. railway systems is my point. The geography of Europe, Japan, their needs and population center proximities are vastly different from our [very] car/airplane oriented society. Acela ridership consists mostly of business folks on...

Yes but the Metroliners as far back as 1969 were carding 2 hours 30 minutes NYC-WAS. Progress? BOS-NYC will never happen on the existing ROW.

Your 'comprehensive reasons' have been countered in the other thread. Constructive discussion can be had if you set aside your 'romance of the rails' and look objectively and realistically at the state of rail travel in this country. Passenger railroads can only compete with the airlines in the...

It is my slant and I do own it. I stand by my article. That article has been published in numerous venues and the overwhelming favorable responses outnumber the very few (just two of you) negative responses. There are no curves between NYC and WAS??? The tilt system is exclusively for NYC to...