Re:Spanish airline reserves 10 Airlander airships from Bedfo...
by ghaff on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @12:49PM
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>usable, if expensive, passenger rail
Part of it is that the Northeast Corridor has to pay for basically the entire rest of the country where Amtrak almost universally loses money.
The other is that Acela specifically is priced to be more or less just competitive with air on the BOS-NYC and NYC-DC legs. (Acela doesn't really work for the most part to travel the entire length of the corridor.)
I almost never take Acela if I'm paying myself because the electrification work done for Acela made the regular regional train only about an hour slower for the BOS-NYC leg. (They used to have to switch engines in New Haven.)
Part of it is that the Northeast Corridor has to pay for basically the entire rest of the country where Amtrak almost universally loses money.
The other is that Acela specifically is priced to be more or less just competitive with air on the BOS-NYC and NYC-DC legs. (Acela doesn't really work for the most part to travel the entire length of the corridor.)
I almost never take Acela if I'm paying myself because the electrification work done for Acela made the regular regional train only about an hour slower for the BOS-NYC leg. (They used to have to switch engines in New Haven.)