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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Gilbert B Norman: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by SilverStar092: [qb] I don't understand the talk of service cuts in this thread. It seems to have been started by Mr. GBN and I personally don't understand his desire to spout negativity toward passenger trains on a message board for people who enjoy them. The arguments are fine if that's his opinion but there should be a more productive place for such stuff.[/qb][/QUOTE]First allow me to thank Mr. Palmland for his support and for Patrick's understanding 'of where I come from". As I've often noted, I was an entry level "Management Trainee' with the MILW on A-Day. It was my understanding that the LD system was 'given five years' and at that time after a 'spruce up' and marketing plan after which the inevitable "well we tried but this won't work', the trains would be discontinued in an orderly manner i.e. don't kill NY-CHI service first as such is the principal connection to the Western trains; kill the Floridian and National Limited as those really do not connect with 'all that much'. I have often contended here that had the industry's managers of my day ever foreseen that forty some years later, LD trains still be on the rails providing little in the way of meaningful transportation and nothing towards "the bottom line' of an investor owned business enterprise, I'm certain those managers would have said "thanks but no thanks' to the invitation to join Amtrak and proceeded to progress the case for discontinuance of the trains before the regulatory agencies. As I've noted here on many an occasion, on the day during 1980 that the Staggers Act was implemented and had the industry remained in the passenger business for their own account, there would have been "a mite few' Adios drumheads illuminated that day. Finally, Mr Silver Star, a review of the discussion will show that I was not the first participant to suggest discontinuance of anything here. Most specifically I refer to the following; [QUOTE]Originally posted by sojourner: [qb] Why don't they cancel the Palmetto? What use is the Palmetto anyway? They already have 2 trains a day (with sleepers) to FL, stopping in the Palmetto stops, plus the trains from NC, a state that supports Amtrak.[/qb][/QUOTE]I only noted that [i][b]IF[/b][/i] there is to be an initiative to discontinue some LD services, either the Meteor or the Palmetto, is most vulnerable because no 180 Day Notice under ARAA '97 would be required. disclaimer: author holds positions BNI NSC UNP [/QB][/QUOTE]
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