We really regret this, but this was beyond Amtrak's ability. This made it impossible for our trains to proceed until this morning, and even then there was a tremendous amount of freight train congestion.

Americans want and need passenger train service, ... They've demonstrated that by riding our trains wherever we operate them in large numbers. It is a myth that no one is interested in riding long-distance passenger trains.

Things that are easily done are often much harder to undo. Sometimes, impossible.

We will do that to help alleviate the discomfort because of the terrible delays.

Would we add items to our wish list of capital; projects? Yes. But we are getting back on track.

The cost of propulsion, the cost of fuel, keeps going up.