Amtrak's Future

[Northwestern]

A proposed happy hour, on the Zephyr, from Chicago to Galesburg. How about a 2nd happy hour from Glenwood Springs to Grand Junction. On the eastbound train, possibly Reno to Winnemucca and Winter Park to Denver.

 

[Cal]

A proposed happy hour, on the Zephyr, from Chicago to Galesburg.

This is already in effect.

 

[JWM]

With the current "Empire Builder" situation, constant late departures due to late arrivals and equipment servicing and more, I have to question how much longer all of this can go on before the passenger count shrinks. Not so much in the Northeast, Midwest Corridor and West Coast corridor services, but the long distance trains. The pricing is way out of whack, but when your inventory is down, I guess to you try to milk what you have for every cent. The blame really goes to the abysmal funding since Amtrak's inception, with some notable exceptions, in 1971. I am no genius and I will ask others for ideas of how we can make the aforementioned trains viable with the present, and upcoming, funding and equipment issues. It's exasperating to me. I want to travel by train, I grew up on them and even took the "California Zephyr" in 1983 on my honeymoon, but sometimes the present conditions are just too much.