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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MargaretSPfan: [QB] AFAIK, the Southwest Chief's route between Lamy, New Mexico, and Trinidad, Colorado, was supposed to be exempt from being required to have PTC. There are other places where Amtrak operates that are also supposed to be exempt from PTC. With this news from the Trains Newswire, it looks to many of us as though Richard Anderson and Amtrak top management are continuing to do their "death by a thousand cuts" to destroy Amtrak's long-distance trains. PTC is just a useful excuse to stop running the Southwest Chief. The death by a thousand cuts is a very workable way to destroy something, because those who object to any of the small cuts can be derided as overreacting and wasting their energy on small issues when there really are much more important issues they should deal with. But it is far, far easier to stop a snowball from rolling downhill and killing people if you kick it apart when it is very small. Anderson was chosen to kill Amtrak's long-distance trains, and he will stay only as long as he has to to get his nice retirement package -- probably 3 years. And when he is done, the US will be the only technologically advanced nation in the world that has no long-distance passenger trains. We will be like Mexico, which killed all of its passenger trains some years ago. That is not a good example to copy. I know I am not wrong about Anderson's agenda. But I wish with all my heart that I were. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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