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10.28.2009 4:22 pm

Study says Amtrak loses $32 per passenger

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

SubsidyScope, a government-tracking effort of the Pew Charitable Trusts, has trained its lens on  Amtrak, and it says the railroad is losing a lot more money than it admits. After adding in depreciation and overhead, which an airline or any other…

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10.05.2009 6:17 pm

Blogger rebuts rapid-rail study

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Randal O’Toole is a scholar at the conservative Cato Institute. The Daily Kos is a liberal blog. You wouldn’t expect them to agree on much, and they certainly disagree on the subject of high-speed rail. In a lengthy post yesterday, the…

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09.29.2009 3:01 pm

Rapid rail would be a money-loser in Missouri, study says

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Those spoilsports at the Show-Me Institute are throwing cold water on Missouri politicians’ dream of building a high-speed rail line. They’ve published a new study by Randal O’Toole that says a Kansas City-St. Louis linewould cost $875 million to build, post…

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