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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Gilbert B Norman: [QB] Patrick, during 1967, it appeared that the the Builders, Chiefs, and Cities were all "safe", but now almost forty years after A-Day, the role of rail passenger service in the 21st century is clearly seen as commuter and Corridors. It is simply not the LD passenger train. But I must acknowledge that so long as "the ways of Washington" are as they are, the existing 'skeleton" LD system is safe as it is the catalyst for ensuring Federal level funding of the only thing Amtrak has that really counts - and that is of course the NorthEast Corridor. My complaint with the advocacy groups is that 'they don't get it". They should be leading the charge to relieve the Treasury of having to fund $300M of LD train deficits and the Class I industry of their indirect subsidy by allowing access paid for at less than the opportunity cost of such, and having that $300M directed to greater development of Corridors operating primarily over publicly owned predominately passenger ROW's. But yet they hang on with their "connect the dots' charades that I for one find meaningless, even though I'm sure there are some who can find relevance for such in the 21st Century. The advocacy groups should be directed towards ensuring that taxpayers receive greatest value for the funds they choose to allocate to rail passenger service; NARP and the other advocacy groups appear to be working counter to that goal by pressing forth with their contention that somehow a case can be made that the LD trains are worthy of continued subsidy from both the Federal trough and by the Class I industry. Much as you and the majority here, including myself, enjoy riding LD trains (albeit in most part from the other side of the Diner than yourself), it is time to recognize that their time of providing meaningful transportation to the population at large expired during the "mid 50's'; had Amtrak not come along, or the roads simply said "thanks but no thanks', as I dare say many a contemporary railroad manager would have preferred to be the case, the party would have largely been over after the five-year "Moratorium" on train-offs under RPSA '70 expired and definitely would have been over when Staggers was implemented during 1980. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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