Buried in a box somewhere I have Mike Schafer's Amtrak book from several years ago, which is pretty good up to a point (no Acela, etc.). His "American Streamliners" and "The American Passenger Train" books provide some background detail as well, but otherwise you're right - not all in one place. Of course there's always those old copies of Passenger Train Journal...The history of Amtrak is a fascinating study...it is fairly well documented, but no single definitive book that I am aware of...
Those mentioned look at Amtrak more from an "enthusiast's" point of view...not a scholarly type of detailed business history.
Not familiar with that one, but it sounds interesting....I have this older one in my library...Agreed that this is probably overdue. The 50th anniversary is in a couple years, so maybe someone's currently working on one as a tie-in. A scholarly business book about Penn Central/Conrail/etc. came out over a decade ago.
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