Railjunkie wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 9:46 am
So I ask what would you propose Amtrak do to correct the problem as you see it. The NEC may break even and the Empire Corridor at one time turned a profit. Without those prices and crowded trains...
I never suggested this was a problem. eolesen seems to be convinced that Amtrak as a whole is apparently some kind of sham operation that doesn't know how to transport people, has terrible customer service, and will cease to exist any moment now, and that the terrible seats and seating arrangement on the Airos was going to accelerate this demise.
I was raising the current success on the corridor as a counterpoint to that narrative and that changing the orientation of the seats on the existing fleet was going to have zero impact to Amtrak, both long- and short-term.
I personally was not a fan of using the Airo sets on the corridor when it was announced, because it seemed wasteful to me to be hauling around a genset under the wire. I realize now that the operational efficiencies resulting from removing the need to swap engines counterweigh this, though I do wonder comparatively speaking what the costs of extending electrification, and continuing to use ACS-64s, would be. But we had NJT follow this path with their 45DPs, and it seems to have worked out fine for them.
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