Re: #Why Amtrak is dying when we need it the most?

"senile, craven" <semencanyon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> sniveled and whined:
> 
> 4095 Dead remarked upon:
> > 
> > The rolling stock of the New York City subway system consists of more
> > than 6,400 cars.
> >
> > Amtrak, by contrast, only has 632 usable cars in operation.
> >
> > For the entire country.
> >
> > Just ... wow.
> >
> > Details from the New York Times article.
> >
> > The problem is that rail has shriveled. The number of "passenger
> > miles" traveled on intercity rail has dropped by about two-thirds
> > since 1960, and the companies that build rail cars and locomotives
> > have also shrunk, making it hard to expand.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > Today Amtrak has 632 usable rail cars, and dozens more are worn out or
> > damaged but could be reconditioned and put into service at a cost of
> > several hundred thousand dollars each.
> >
> > And it needs to buy new rail cars soon. Its Amfleet cars, the ones
> > recognizable to riders as the old Metroliners, are more than 30 years
> > old. And the Acela trains, which have been operating about eight
> > years, have about a million miles on them.
> 
>...and yet it's all they need.. why should they have more.. nobody
>rides the damned things anyway.

Prove it..

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> Wed, 26 Feb 2003 17:11:30 GMT

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> Wed, 26 Feb 2003 19:59:42 GMT

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> Tue, 13 Aug 2002 13:57:10 GMT

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> Wed, 26 Feb 2003 17:08:28 GMT