American Passenger Railway

[Saturnalia]

This newly-formed company will be taking over 3 Amtrak Routes: The Empire Builder, Southwest Chief & Coast Starlight. We WILL be running them for a profit. We have the same relationship with the freight railroads as Amtrak, as givin to us by the Federal Govt. We will NOT be stopping in little towns, instead our business model will be one of a tour of the Western US, not meant to be a mode of transport between Seattle & Minot, or whatever little town you please.

APR is a subsidiary of Marquette Rail Holdings, Inc, owners of Marquette Rail & Marquette Rail Innovation, LLC

[Ypsi]

NO lets not get too out of hand with the paper RRs... its amtrak with a new name (and worse business plan )

anyway yeah Im giving my big N O

[Saturnalia]

NO lets not get too out of hand with the paper RRs... its amtrak with a new name (and worse business plan )

anyway yeah Im giving my big N O

Why?

Losers

[DT&I]

NO lets not get too out of hand with the paper RRs... its amtrak with a new name (and worse business plan )

anyway yeah Im giving my big N O

Why?

Losers

Lol becuase we all have our own passenger business with our freight railroads.

[Ypsi]

NO lets not get too out of hand with the paper RRs... its amtrak with a new name (and worse business plan )

anyway yeah Im giving my big N O

Why?

Losers

Lol becuase we all have our own passenger business with our freight railroads.

becasue the LOSERS like AMTRAK!

[AARR]

Passenger trains are not real trains

[Saturnalia]

NO lets not get too out of hand with the paper RRs... its amtrak with a new name (and worse business plan )

anyway yeah Im giving my big N O

Why?

Losers

Lol becuase we all have our own passenger business with our freight railroads.

None of these run on YOUR routes.

[Saturnalia]

I guess I could always go the route of this being a subsidiary of MQT

[DT&I]

But the trains would be competing with ours, we all have trains into Chicago, Detroit, and other cities, maybe it was a bad a idea to ask us

[Saturnalia]

But the trains would be competing with ours, we all have trains into Chicago, Detroit, and other cities, maybe it was a bad a idea to ask us

IT dosn't replace ALL of Amtrak, just those 3 routes

Because it was suppsed to be a new railway, I needed approval...I'll just make a subsidiary and all will be well.

[DT&I]

But the trains would be competing with ours, we all have trains into Chicago, Detroit, and other cities, maybe it was a bad a idea to ask us

IT dosn't replace ALL of Amtrak, just those 3 routes

Because it was suppsed to be a new railway, I needed approval...I'll just make a subsidiary and all will be well.

Yea if you made it a subsidiary then itd be already a part of an existing railroad, whih i dont think you need approval for it to exist

[Ypsi]

why would amtrak give you its 3 best routes anyway...

[Saturnalia]

why would amtrak give you its 3 best routes anyway...

All 3 are total economic LOSERS

We will look to the Texas Eagle, Sunset Limited, and California Zephyr if we can turn a profit on these.

[Ypsi]

All 3 are total economic LOSERS

All from Amtrak

Empire Builder remains the most popular long-distance train in the Amtrak system. The train had a total revenue of $53,773,711 in FY2011, a decrease of 8.1% from FY2010.

During fiscal year 2011, the Coast Starlight carried over 425,000 passengers, a decrease of 4% from FY2010. The train had a total revenue of $39,997,952 during FY2011, a 6.9% increase from FY2010.

During fiscal year 2011, the Southwest Chief carried a total over 350,000 passengers, a 3.7% increase from FY 2010. The train had a total of revenue of $44,184,060 during FY 2011, a 6.2% increase from FY 2010.

nuff said

[Ypsi]

All 3 are total economic LOSERS

All from Amtrak

Empire Builder remains the most popular long-distance train in the Amtrak system. The train had a total revenue of $53,773,711 in FY2011, a decrease of 8.1% from FY2010.

During fiscal year 2011, the Coast Starlight carried over 425,000 passengers, a decrease of 4% from FY2010. The train had a total revenue of $39,997,952 during FY2011, a 6.9% increase from FY2010.

During fiscal year 2011, the Southwest Chief carried a total over 350,000 passengers, a 3.7% increase from FY 2010. The train had a total of revenue of $44,184,060 during FY 2011, a 6.2% increase from FY 2010.

nuff said

but calling them all loseres in unfair MQT.... because ALL amtrak trains are big fat LOSERS!

[Saturnalia]

All 3 are total economic LOSERS

All from Amtrak

Empire Builder remains the most popular long-distance train in the Amtrak system. The train had a total revenue of $53,773,711 in FY2011, a decrease of 8.1% from FY2010.

During fiscal year 2011, the Coast Starlight carried over 425,000 passengers, a decrease of 4% from FY2010. The train had a total revenue of $39,997,952 during FY2011, a 6.9% increase from FY2010.

During fiscal year 2011, the Southwest Chief carried a total over 350,000 passengers, a 3.7% increase from FY 2010. The train had a total of revenue of $44,184,060 during FY 2011, a 6.2% increase from FY 2010.

nuff said

but calling them all loseres in unfair MQT.... because ALL amtrak trains are big fat LOSERS!

We are going to turn these into Economic Winners.

[AARR]

We are going to turn these into Economic Winners.

Removing the vote does notcchange the outcome. Your passenger trains were voted down

[DT&I]

We are going to turn these into Economic Winners.

Removing the vote does notcchange the outcome. Your passenger trains were voted down

+1 AARR

[atrainguy60]

I vote down.

[conrailman75]

My Amtrak trains only go to Chicago so I don't have a problem with the proposal since his trains would connect with mine at Chicago, so while it doesn't matter now, I vote yes. Besides, my PC has NO plans to run any passenger trains of their own.