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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Gilbert B Norman: [QB] You make good points immediately above, Mr. Robert L. However, the contractual remuneration rates between Amtrak and any road are proprietary in nature and are not publicly disclosed. Referring to either Amtrak's or a Class I's Annual Report (public documents) or even the more detailed in the case of the Class 1, the 10-K, will not yield any pertinent information. What is fair remuneration is sort of a "which came first the chicken or the egg" question. So far as Congress and passenger advocacy groups go, the existing "incremental cost', or how much time does a Train Dispatcher spend moving Amtrak over the road, is quite enough. Congress says "we struck a good deal, and "sorry 'bout that" they once agreed to the "rights of access' provisions...it keeps needed funding down". Advocates seem to be of the thought that railroads had some obligation "from on high" as their social duty or whatever to run passenger trains on into perpetuity, and RPSA '70 (Amtrak) relieved them of the cost of so doing. Naturally as a railroad securities investor (positions in BNI NSC), and one who rides only when I need go somewhere and Amtrak is convenient, to me fair remuneration is whatever the "gross margin' of operating the highest priority freight train ("Z" train) would be, but it would be fair to have most of that remuneration built into performance payments. In short, money talks, UNOWAT walks. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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