Cuts and effect on Amtrak

[StorkNest]

In a news article on the US budget (not the subject) I read that one cut is $150 million to Amtrak.
How do you see this effecting them?
It has been said this would affect the Northeast Corridor though details have not been given.

 

[cascaderailroad]

US Rail Transportation ... Failtrak

I have heard of rats and mice on Amtrak trains, that the food service was horrible ... last year when an Amtrak train was stalled and in a blizzard the train was days late, and the passengers had no food and no water.

Things can only get worse with funding cuts.

With only 2 trains daily from Phila to Pittsburgh, if you don't make 2 week reservations, it is standing room only, or dirty seats next to the smelly lavatory, if and when passengers get off.

 

[Paulsw2]

Crikey! And I thought Britain's railways under privatisation were terrible! Of course the USA was the template for what happened to BR in 1996, so here's a vision of the future.....

Paul (feeling in a re-nationalisation mood)

 

[SUBWAY125]

I have heard of rats and mice on Amtrak trains, that the food service was horrible ... last year when an Amtrak train was stalled and in a blizzard the train was days late, and the passengers had no food and no water.

Things can only get worse with funding cuts.

With only 2 trains daily from Phila to Pittsburgh, if you don't make 2 week reservations, it is standing room only, or dirty seats next to the smelly lavatory, if and when passengers get off.

Anyone up for Tri-State Commuter Rail???

 

[gfisher]

Well that would include the line into Connecticut on the NEC. They have had up to 40 percent of their 40 year old cars knocked out of service because of cold weather and snow. Some feeder lines are now bus only and run 50 percent late. They have 380 new cars sitting in a yard that cost about 2.5 million each. They have been sitting there for a year because the computer program that runs the car is incompatible with the computer program that runs the system and no one can seem to come up with a fix.