I heard on the radio that Amtrak was considering having freight trains. If Amtrak had freight then it would have an unfair advantage over the other freight lines because the other rail lines don’t receive government support. It has been proven that freight lines can still succeed on their own because Conrail was created in 1976 because freight lines were going bankrupt. The government needed to butt in to keep freight rail in America. Conrail eventually became independent and didn’t need government support. So they were able to survive on their own. Even after an unsuccessful merger where CSX took over about half of Conrail, CSX made a net profit of 2 million dollars, which is good considering they had an unsuccessful merger.

Therefore, if Amtrak wants to have freight then Uncle Sam should not have any thing to do with it because it would be unfair to other rail lines.

Wait For Acela Express

Currently, Massachusetts is spending a lot of money to try and build a new run-way at Logan and have flights from Boston to New York at other airports such as, Worcester Airport and Hanscom. This is wrong because according to WLVI 56 Boston, Amtrak is doing much better because of Acela Regional. So maybe, the government should wait for Acela Express to come out before it spends so much money on all of these projects.