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   After 48 years of providing long-distance passenger train services,   
   is Amtrak preparing to scuttle these operations and dismantle    
   its National Network? That nightmare prospect, long desired for    
   decades by anti-passenger-rail politicians, now seems a real    
   and perhaps imminent possibility. Astoundingly, the primary    
   push for this appears to come, not from anti-Amtrak forces in    
   the Capitol or White House, but from Amtrak’s newly revamped    
   management itself.   
      
   full article at:   
   https://www.railwayage.com/passenger/the-folly-of-discarding-lon   
   -distance-passenger-trains/   
      
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