Re: Efficient use of Railroads

Commie plot? You've got to be kidding. It was the Italian fascists that made the trains run on time.

My point exactly. It was a fascist plot, not a commie plot.

Yabbut Mussolini was one of them there socialist before he became a fascists, so there! Obvious commie plot if ever there was one.... Probably had WMD's too... ;)

Ken Rice spake thus:

Yeah, imagine that; and no smileys either for the clue-impaired.

Sarcasm? On Usenet? Say it isn't so!

What about "Make Freight Trains Run On Time?" -:)

Our formula is different overall. It's different for a number of reasons, not the least of which is population density. Where the US population is dense passenger service is more viable (NE corridor, Sacramento Capitol Corridor, etc).

The idea that a low volume passenger service would ruin a high volume, viable freight service is an amazing claim. And if the freight service isn't viable to start with it would still be nonviable with passenger service. We should not use creative accounting trickery in order to make the money losing passenger service look like it's profitable ... DUH! That doesn't mean supporting a money losing passenger service is wrong. Just be aware that it's being subsidized and why.

What happened to the triple tracking of the Capitol Corridor proposal?

Paul

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Amtrak itself stated on its web site that freight congestion causes trains to run late.

Uncle Pervo couldn't even do that with complete R.O.W. over AmTrak, and that was before his 93 year old trestle burned down.

What are you saying? It would be less viable with more Amtrak?

And this is relavent how? Sometimes the system clogs up and things run slow? That's iwth or without Amtrak. Your original position was that adding passenger service (Amtrak) would shift the profit from the freight service to the passenger service. Now you are claiming that the freight service will break the the passenger service? Which is it?

The major railroads in the US are profitable but, you said;

The issue is one of cost and we cannot have money-losing freight service

Which we don't have.

where you can hide the overall costs while declaring profitable passenger service.

Who is claiming that Amtrak is profitable? The railroads are profitable AND that's coexisting with Amtrak, which pays for track usage. So what are you talking about?

Paul

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No, that's what you were saying. Weren't you paying attention to what you were saying?

Paul

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