Jacob Passy

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WSJ Your Money Briefing · All Aboard! More Travelers Choose Trains Over Cars and Planes · 2 Aug 2024 podcast

Amtrak in the Northeast Corridor, you can really score rock bottom fares that are much cheaper than traveling by air.

Sometimes those are at weird times of the day, but those cheap fares are out there.

So with the exception of the Northeast Corridor and now Brightline down in Florida, when we're talking about rail travel, it is a drop in the bucket.

A lot of these routes only have one, two, maybe three trains a day.

Sometimes those trains are at odd hours of the day.

And oftentimes outside of the Northeast Corridor, passenger trains with Amtrak are competing with

freight railroads for space and schedules that can cause delays, etc.

So the lack of frequency and reliability outside of the Northeast corridor has limited the feasibility of rail being an option to folks.

So in the cases we're seeing now where Amtrak has been able to add service and increase service on existing routes, folks are responding.

They want to travel by train.

It's just a matter of getting trains to them.

To start off, there's no TSA.

Obviously, rail operators do check tickets, but we're not talking about the long lines at security.

And that's one of the aspects that folks seem to love about train travel, as opposed to the airport, where you need to show up hours in advance to make sure that you make your flight.

You can show up a few minutes before your train and be fine.

Not to say that folks wouldn't give themselves attention, but that is a major difference.

And then in terms of the experience on board the train, people are not as jam-packed as they are on planes.

There are cabs.

cafe cars, you can get up and walk around, you can appreciate the views in a different way than you can in the air.

But there are other drawbacks.

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