[Opinionated Blowhard]

Amtrak could be profitable if they were allowed to reduce labor costs and stop servicing rural routes with only a couple passengers per day. Also, some of their higher volume routes were planned out based on going through powerful Congressmens’ districts rather than profit or need. There is a profitable market for rail travel in this country but Congress has completely screwed up Amtrak.

[muawiyah]

Roughly Miami to Boston ~ it is feasible to carve out profitable rail in that corridor ~ but no where else.

Americans built roads and drive cars for a reason ~ to make personal transportation much cheaper than could be delivered by the rail system.