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Posted by JayZeeBMT on Fri Jan 14 15:49:08 2011, in response to Re: Amtrak's ACS-64 design, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Fri Jan 14 15:36:10 2011. After the intital cost of electric infrastructure, operating expenses are less per passenger-mile than diesel operated lines. Amtrak makes good money on the NEC, where electrification drives revenue...I can't get my head around why, in light of the fact that NEC operation has shown people like being able to jump on an electric train and go to BOS or DC at their convenience, nobody even looks at developing other US markets for electric operation. (Florida HSR notwithstanding.) One-mode, one-seat traveling (as opposed to, say, driving or taking a bus out to LGA, flying to Reagan, and driving back into DC) has great appeal with the public. NEC has made money for almost seventy years (even when the PRR was hemorrhaging money, the NEC broke even)... |
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