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[QUOTE]Originally posted by amtraksupporter: [QB] PullmanCo quoted THe Topeka Capital Journal : [QUOTE]"The alliance estimates it could cost $12.7 million a year for operations and $6.5 million in track upgrades. [/QUOTE]Is the $12.7 million in operating costs based on operating a separate train Oklahoma City to Kansas City or piggy-backing 3 and 4 between Newton and Kansas City? Or did somebody just make up the figure without considering the difference? The number sounds like the former to me. But that makes little sense because the train from Dallas and Oklahoma needs to go to Chicago. Is the $12.5 million an operating department expense figure or does it represent a net cash flow figure of marginal revenues less marginal expenses. If the latter, how did they allocate marginal revenues? Fully? I continue to maintain that if you look at the the total marginal revenue -- all the revenue that Amtrak would get that without the bridge it would not get -- on the Oklahoma City-Newton bridge connection and the marginal costs of operating the bridge less expenses of cleaning And storing equipment in Oklahoma City, this bridge will pay for itself, and Amtrak should not be asking Kansas to pay. As for the $6.5 million in track upgrades, that's nothing. The track must be in good shape. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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