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Subject: Re: Rail tour of the US Posted on: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 13:47:55 EDT

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 07:47:37 +0300, henry999@eircom.net (Henry)
wrote:

> wrote:
>
>> A friend of mine who is a retired Amtrack employee says
>> that ... delays are often to wait for a freight train miles
>> ahead to clear the tracks. Freight gets priority since that's
>> where most of the profits come from.
>
>Almost. Freight gets priority because throughout the West it's the
>freight-carrying railroads that own the tracks. Amtrak merely leases
>access from them.

That's true for almost all of AMTRAK's long routes.

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