by Stmtrolleyguy
DutchRailnut wrote:There is no servicable cars stored, all need major work to tune of about $100 000 per car.
The reason they are stored is Amtrak does not have that money to get the cars in service.
And unless someting big happens in Washington they won't have money for years to come.
I'm no expert, but. . . .
$100,000 per car or so, for an operating high-speed passenger car on lease doesn't sound too bad. Make the lease simply for the repair of the cars- you repair it, you can use it for X years, we want $100 a year/car lease rate, then we want it back in functioning condition. They're not doing any good sitting around, they'd probably get back to AMTRAK faster then AMTRAK would get the funding to repair them on its own.