The author of this piece is making a presentation in Washington DC next week about a model for re-privatizing Amtrak's long distance trains in such a way that the Class I railroads can again make a profit from them. He will be on the dais with some folks from USDOT, Amtrak and Congress. The audience for this privatization forum will be congressional staffers on the various transportation committees, i.e. the people who do the actual work, not the ones who posture for the camera.
The last I heard, C-SPAN will tape the forum and run segments of it sometime on a weekend or the middle of a night.