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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Gilbert B Norman: [QB] For TRAINS subscribers' ready reference, here is the material Mr. Palmland notes: http://cs.trains.com/trn/b/fred-frailey/archive/2012/09/17/southwest-chief-my-parting-shot.aspx For anyone here who has somehow envisioned Local funding of Amtrak's LD routes, Mr. Frailey has provided a textbook as to why if any proposal, such as from a hostile future Administration, for such were to be set forth, consider it DOA (dead on arrival). Lest we forget, there has been one attempt at a locally funded LD, the Lake Shore's forerunner, that lasted all of seven months during 1971. As I've noted in the past, Boy Scouts is one of those tickets that aspiring managers on any a number of railroads had to get punched. While I'm not about to be invited for a first hand review, I think a walk down BNSF's "mahogany row' in Fort Worth, would show a Boy Scout memento or two visibly displayed. However, this may no longer be enough to ensure continued rail service to Philmont. As one of the comments at Mr. Frailey's blog noted, the Super Chief's business model of providing end point to end point service with little regard for anything in between expired some seventy years ago. Finally, should the reroute occur, Albuquerque will be served by an Ambus connection at Belen; let's just stow all this chatter about the wye two miles South of town or that "they back into Tampa two miles every day". So far as Tampa goes, they have to wye the train anyway, so "just keep backing" (and pray) rather than incurring the cost of building a station out at Ybor City, or wherever. The Chief would simply stop at a station in Belen, just as did ATSF #2DD and #1DD last on A-Day, do its station work, and highball. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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