The 70s and 80s were a dark time for American Rail between the shutdown of private routes, the collapse of Penn Central, the Turboliners, The shut down of Amtrak routes, the Amtrak Profitability requirement, the end of the Budd Car company, the Dissolution of Conrail, and Reagan
Train lines don't have to be profitable, even running at a loss their value is more than the sum of the tickets sold
I agree, but congress still required Amtrak to be profitable when it was formed from get this, the failing unprofitable passenger railways that still remained in the us
