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Re: High Speed Rail vs Really Fast Regional Rail |
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Posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Thu Apr 26 20:06:57 2012, in response to Re: High Speed Rail vs Really Fast Regional Rail, posted by NIMBYkiller on Thu Apr 26 11:23:45 2012. ROW maintenance is mainly a fixed cost. Running more trains makes the cost per train lower.As for your Philly example: If you have 3 cars of people (210) x $24 going to Philly, you've taken in $5040 off of 3 crew members for 2 hours. Since Amtrak generates their own power they're not getting ripped off on the energy costs. So how can you *not* make money off of this? Since the NEC has a virtually unlimited supply of passengers, the only time you're "losing" money is if you have equipment idling when it could be transporting passengers. |
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