In a message dated Fri, 30 Dec 2005 21:50:31 -0800, snipped-for-privacy@telecom-digest.org writes in reply to Jim Stewart :
The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, originally called
> Railpax and later adopting the trade name Amtrak, was created out of
> whole cloth. Many people thought then, and still do today, that it
> was created to bring an end to railroad passenger service in the
> U.S.A. within a few years.
It was likely as much a surprise to the original managers as to the public and the rest of government that they made a go of it against all odds.
Wes Leatherock snipped-for-privacy@aol.com snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Sorry Mr. Leatherock, that was not _me_, I think you were quoting Mr. Stewart talking to someone else in that message. PAT]