The City Of New Orleans passes though our small town in Illinois. It has been consistently downgraded in quality of service and number of cars.
I would have to wonder why the Government decided to take over the Rail Passenger Service in the 70's if they had no intention to maintain a decent sized working system. The first things they did was cut the service to many points though out the nations western and middle states. That set up a situation that as some have said about Mexico, a plan that was all most guaranteed to fail. Only the most devoted rail passenger is willing to spend good money to go a day out of your way simply to have to return all that distance a few hundred miles away to get where your wanting to go. Air lines that only served a very limited number of major cities would be in the same boat. Its simply no way to run a railroad as the old saying goes.
I would have to wonder why the Government decided to take over the Rail Passenger Service in the 70's if they had no intention to maintain a decent sized working system. The first things they did was cut the service to many points though out the nations western and middle states. That set up a situation that as some have said about Mexico, a plan that was all most guaranteed to fail. Only the most devoted rail passenger is willing to spend good money to go a day out of your way simply to have to return all that distance a few hundred miles away to get where your wanting to go. Air lines that only served a very limited number of major cities would be in the same boat. Its simply no way to run a railroad as the old saying goes.