Anonymous asked:

Thank you for starting to do things about the absolute dumpster fire of a line that is the Auto Train

amtrak-official answered:

I didn’t even want that bastard child, he was a result of a private company in the 80s going bankrupt and congress taking control afterwards. It went bankrupt because a car train is a fucking stupid idea and train stations should be in city centers and not the suburbs

[ice-to-orange-blossoms]

It went bankrupt because the company expanded too quickly and had some costly wrecks. The auto train is one of your only profitable long distance trains.

[amtrak-official]

Still has a fucking stupid concept