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Re:Plans Develop for High-Speed Rail in the PNW by ghaff on Saturday July 29, 2023 @12:37AM (#36916994)
It’s mostly the Northeast Corridor from Boston to DC where Amtrak makes the majority of its profits though—which it then mostly loses in the rest of the country.

The auto train to Florida is sort of a special case. That’s not people traveling for a long weekend or even a week. It’s historically been people going south for the winter.

Re:Plans Develop for High-Speed Rail in the PNW by bombcar on Saturday July 29, 2023 @09:37AM (#36920188)
If they really run that train every single day year round, and it almost always sells out, it can't just be people going south and back, or the winter trains would be empty.

I think it's just a common trip and the train is cheap/convenient enough.

Re:Plans Develop for High-Speed Rail in the PNW by ghaff on Saturday July 29, 2023 @10:44AM (#36920810)
I stand corrected. I thought it was a less frequent thing. Assume a lot of families do the theme parks that you really need a car for but they don’t want to do the long drive from the mid-Atlantic. Don’t know if it makes money though.