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Posted by WoodyinNYC: "Amtrak advertises itself every time prospective riders see one of the trains."This is true in concept, but viable only in high Amtrak traffic areas like the NEC. To a non-Amtrak person who is not a train enthusiast, a train at a crossing or blowing a horn near a house or office, is an annoyance. This is especially true in areas outside of the NEC where the predominate train traffic consists of long freights blocking crossings, with Amtrak occurring once or twice a day at best, and half the time unseen at night.I agree with most of the above comments. First, Amtrak and this Country's leaders have to take rail passenger travel seriously with adequate reliable funding, encouraging logical service-oriented management (think Wal-Mart, the largest, most profitable company in the World!). Then, and only then, advertise train travel in local markets, on a personal level to attract the Moms and Pops visiting Grandma, vacation travelers, and business travelers looking to save hotel expenses at destinations. Also, reliable enjoyable service would lessen the damaging anti-Amtrak jokes by late-night TV hosts.
Posted by WoodyinNYC: "Amtrak advertises itself every time prospective riders see one of the trains."
This is true in concept, but viable only in high Amtrak traffic areas like the NEC. To a non-Amtrak person who is not a train enthusiast, a train at a crossing or blowing a horn near a house or office, is an annoyance. This is especially true in areas outside of the NEC where the predominate train traffic consists of long freights blocking crossings, with Amtrak occurring once or twice a day at best, and half the time unseen at night.
I agree with most of the above comments. First, Amtrak and this Country's leaders have to take rail passenger travel seriously with adequate reliable funding, encouraging logical service-oriented management (think Wal-Mart, the largest, most profitable company in the World!). Then, and only then, advertise train travel in local markets, on a personal level to attract the Moms and Pops visiting Grandma, vacation travelers, and business travelers looking to save hotel expenses at destinations. Also, reliable enjoyable service would lessen the damaging anti-Amtrak jokes by late-night TV hosts.
