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[QUOTE]Originally posted by palmland: [QB] Thought I would resurrect this old thread as a blog by Fred Frailey on the Trains.com site today is not encouraging about the SWC remaining on its current route. Frailey's comments refer to the hope that several of the states affected would chip in with part of the maintenance costs to keep the SWC going via Raton: ************ "While I was on vacation, my friend and Southwest Chief advocate Evan Stair forwarded to me the official response to Amtrak from those three states. I read their joint letter, and my body temperature went down 5 degrees. They said, in so many nice words, no way, Jose, will we shoulder any such burden. Sayonara, baby! We don’t give a ***! In so doing, the three state secretaries of transportation wrote the end of this train on its present route. They jerked the chair out from under Amtrak, which can try to patch together a federal government relief package. But if the three states which benefit from it disavow any responsibility whatever, why should Congress go along?...........Amtrak and its people should go to BNSF’s Matt Rose now and negotiate the best deal they can to reroute the Southwest Chief via Amarillo, Tex., and Clovis, N.M. BNSF will strike a hard bargain. This is its bread and butter, the Transcon, brimming over with important freight trains and studded with three single-track segments that already cause serious delays. The price of admission to the Transcon could conceivably reach $100 million......So instead of waiting until 2015, Amtrak needs to invoke Plan B right now. " ******** Amtrak's action plan seems to have been 'let's just hope things work out'. Apparently not to be and hopefully it's not too late to get it rerouted. Better that than a possible truncated train serving both ends of the route as Frailey goes on to speculate. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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