United Rail Passenger Alliance

Volume 4 Number 23.

1. Continuing our series on how Amtrak can help itself to become close to self-sufficiency, we’re going to look at two other under-utilized routes and a severely under served major city and how each can be improved.Remember the rules of this exercise; this is about upgrading existing routes, using as many existing stations and maintenance facilities as possible, and using existing motive power and rolling stock out of Amtrak’s current pool of active and stored equipment. Under these rules, while many new routes or extensions of current routes to areas not served make sense, they are also expensive and beyond consideration for this exercise; those considerations will be addressed at another time.

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1. URPA’s William Lindley offers these thoughts.
   

   On the pattern for progress

   By William Lindley

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