TheCrescent
OBS Chief
- Joined
- Jun 24, 2020
- Messages
- 562
Given Amtrak’s reduction of sleeping car and dining car services, despite having received numerous new sleeping and dining cars in the past few years, I think that another provider of sleeping car services should be found.
Perhaps the new provider could provide cars to Amtrak and Via, and having a larger marketplace would allow a larger pool of cars to be shifted around where needed.
The new provider could pay Amtrak for hauling sleeping and dining cars and for overhead.
Given 2022’s air travel meltdown, it’s ridiculous that Amtrak hasn’t stepped up with more sleeping car services; it’s failed to expand its market share when doing so should not be hard.
Enough of derelict trains, too few sleeping cars, etc.
I know that there are a lot of obstacles to this (including funding, dealing with US/Canadian permissioning, etc.) but enough is enough. We need night trains that actually fulfill a market need, not an overpriced, bare-bones and unreliable service.
Perhaps the new provider could provide cars to Amtrak and Via, and having a larger marketplace would allow a larger pool of cars to be shifted around where needed.
The new provider could pay Amtrak for hauling sleeping and dining cars and for overhead.
Given 2022’s air travel meltdown, it’s ridiculous that Amtrak hasn’t stepped up with more sleeping car services; it’s failed to expand its market share when doing so should not be hard.
Enough of derelict trains, too few sleeping cars, etc.
I know that there are a lot of obstacles to this (including funding, dealing with US/Canadian permissioning, etc.) but enough is enough. We need night trains that actually fulfill a market need, not an overpriced, bare-bones and unreliable service.