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To see why Amtrak's losses mount, hop on the Empire Builder train


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#1 KevinKorell

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Posted 28 May 2015 - 11:09 AM

Reuters, 5/28/15:

 


To see why Amtrak's losses mount, hop on the Empire Builder train

 

Its passengers are mostly silver-haired retirees, oil-field workers and a few young families gazing out the windows of Amtrak's least-profitable and third-longest line, rumbling from Chicago through eight states and on to the American West Coast.

 

As the Empire Builder snakes along 2,230 miles (3,590 km) on a 46-hour journey, it offers insights into the financial problems plaguing America's passenger railroad at a time of intensifying scrutiny over its aging infrastructure and safety record.

 

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Posted 28 May 2015 - 02:27 PM

This article is not news.  That Amtrak loses money is well known.  What is puzzling is why Reuters has assigned two reporters and two editors to cobble this piece together.  

 

Definitely a hatchet job, IMO, as evident by the absence of any reference to subsidies given to other modes, particularly Essential Air Service which is common along the Empire  Builder route.

 

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