OTOH, the biggest trackage risk to the Card at present I believe is Buckingham Branch RR. Hopefully some funding will materialize from somewhere to fix up that puppy. The worst of it is between Charlottesville and Orange,
As stated in the Amtrak Cardinal report: "Buckingham Branch Railroad is doing a major crosstie replacement and track-surfacing
program that will eliminate many slow orders." Virginia DRPT is providing some funding to Buckingham Branch and other shortline railroads in the state for track and maintenance repairs from the state rail funds. This is a multi-year program with incremental funding, so the track work is presumably done in incremental stages.
A google search turned up a Virginia DRPT document from 2009, shows a 6 year cycle funding need for BB track and grade work as $20.5 million. See
http://www.drpt.virginia.gov/activities/files/Appendix%20C%20Shortline%20Tech%20Memo.pdf. Pages 24-25 list the BB projects. How much of that was or has been funded in the wake of state budget cuts, don't know.