The bottom line, in part, includes these issues:
- A train, as much as we like them, will not alleviate the issues you speak of. It simply won't.
- No Amtrak train makes money. Not even on the Northeast Corridor.
- Florida has never been a place Amtrak wants to go. Don't forget that even after the infrastructure in the Gulf was fixed after Katrina, the Sunset Limited never went East of New Orleans ever again. All those depots along the Alabama and Florida coasts sit dormant to this day, even though the service wasn't used much anyway before that. Yeah, the Auto Train leaves out of Florida, but gets out of there as fast as it can with that through service. And like all other Amtrak trains, your tax dollars subsidize every ticket.
As much as I hate to say it, there will probably come a day when Congress says they're getting out of the passenger train business.
