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Interesting article: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/3-different-visions-of-the-future-of-trains-in-america-2017-07-27

There is much information here. However, one noteworthy point starts on page 32. Amtrak has not updated their fleet plans since 2012. In 2013 they bought 70 of the new electric locomotives for the Northeast Corridor. Their own projections indicated the need for only 56 locomotives resulting in...

Vonlane is starting Dallas/Houston service on April 20th. I have been watching with much interest the progress of this luxury bus service since they started last May between Dallas and Austin. The terminal in Houston is the Sheraton hotel on the north side, near the Bush Airport. At first...

It seems Vonlane has hit the mark with their business model. Here is a good booking for the 3:00 trip to Dallas for today. Load factors have been increasing. Facebook posts are all favorable.

Southwest and Amtrak were started in 1971 a month apart. Southwest began with 3 airplanes serving 3 cities. Today it has over 3000 flights per day serving about 89 destinations with over 500 airplanes. By comparison, Amtrak took over a failed private passenger rail system. What have they...

Amtrak calls itself a "national network". That may be true for some people. Don't get me wrong, I am a big supporter of Amtrak and passenger trains in general. However, that said, from Dallas I cannot travel to the following major destinations directly: Seattle San Francisco Denver...

I saw this article posted on the Facebook page for Amtrak. They claim the cost for operation of one train is $9600, yet the average revenue is just $3600. At a current fare of $29, this would make the average ridership 124. What is the normal consist of this train and what is the capacity? While...

The author intimates, among other things, the NEC market share of Amtrak does not take into account the passenger car and intercity bus http://reason.org/blog/show/brookings-flawed-amtrak-study-shoul

In March of last year Amtrak issued their Version 3.1 Fleet Strategy, in which it was expressed the need for 508 new bi-level cars. Does anyone know what the state of that request is, considering the current funding situation in Washington?