Richard Anderson President and CEO National Railroad Passenger Corporation 60 Massachusetts Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 Dear Sir, With respect, I can’t help but wonder if you truly believe in the Cut-Your-Way-to-Profitability approach as the way to save Amtrak’s national network. In recent years, sleeping car passengers–your customers–have been told we had…
Over the past few days, there has been a lot of back-and-forth emailing among *RPA members and posts on Facebook all triggered by the Trump Administration’s much-ballyhooed trillion dollar infrastructure plan. Wow! A trillion dollars! That’s a thousand billion! And that’s great, because this country’s infrastructure is in sad shape. We could blow through…
We continue to read about how Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor is making money and how the long-distance trains are a money pit. That constantly recurring bit of misinformation is inevitably followed by a ominous prediction about the long term future of passenger rail in the U.S. if Amtrak doesn’t get it’s act together and at least…
Way back when Amtrak was still a new undertaking, a couple of the railroad’s higher-ups were “invited” to appear before Congress. So … how’s it going? Everyone knew that Amtrak was operating hand-to-mouth and in serious need of a continuing supply of federal dollars to keep the trains running. So of course they smiled and…