N.E. Corridor.....HeartBeat of Amtrak?

Trains Magazine Passenger
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Found this article on The Web . Tge attendant book may have some interest here?

see linked article @ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-12/how-the-northeast-corridor-became-amtrak-s-essential-rail-line

“An Ode to the Northeast Corridor, the Rail Line That Keeps Amtrak Alive”

“…The new book The Northeast Corridor traces the history of passenger trains from Boston to DC and explains why the current service is so essential — and so frustrating…” By David Zipper

FTA:"After seeing ridership collapse during the Covid pandemic, Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor is now roaring back to life. Passenger counts on the high-end Acela service soared 38% in its last fiscal year (which ended in September), and overall ridership along the coastal line is above

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Is it the NEC that keeps Amtrak alive? Or is it the rest of the Amtrak system that keeps the NEC alive? Remember, within Amtrak it’s known as the “Nothing Else Counts.”

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It seems that Amtrak is putting all its eggs into the basket of doubling ridership ( numer of passengers ) by increasing the number of riders almost exclusively on the NEC? Now IMO doubling ridership means doubling revenue passenger miles not just doubling riders.

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I agree that passenger miles is a better gauge. However, Amtrak is a political captive, and politicians just count passengers, ie., votes.