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[QUOTE]Originally posted by SilverStar092: [QB] I agree with Ms. Sojourner that there should be a train from FL to the Midwest as well as the NOL-FL routing. As for the railroads' belief that Amtrak would only last five years, I find it hard to believe such was a legal commitment by the government or one of the railroads would have sued by now to force Amtrak off its property. Amtrak is a paying customer and I find it hard to believe the freight railroads find it tangles up their lines by allowing one train per day each way over many of their routes. I certainly can understand their angst if Amtrak were to operate 6 or 8 per day. In many cases the freight companies have accepted government money for improvements and running meager Amtrak service is a small price to pay for what they get. I agree with GBN that Amtrak is irrelevant in terms of percentage of the traveling public carried. But to people in many communities along the way, this service is anything but irrelevant; instead it is a necessary utility. The bigger annoyance to me as a railroad stockholder is all the absurd lawsuits railroads face as a result of grade crossing accidents where the motorist is at fault. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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