Roger Harris

Hi Matt, good to be here today, thank you.

Yeah, so let's talk about 2025.

This is a great time to be here at Amtrak.

I'm certainly very excited about it.

We just had our record year in terms of ridership.

We carried 34 and a half million customers

And I think we did that by running a good railroad, focusing on things like on-time performance, cleanliness, customer service.

That in turn generates really strong revenue, record ticket revenue of $2.7 billion.

That allows us to invest in new products like the new trains, the new Acela trains that we launched in March.

August of this year.

Also, we have a new train coming out next year, the Aero trains that will be seen first in the Pacific Northwest and then later in the Northeast Corridor.

We're also investing in new routes like the new Mardi Gras service between New Orleans and Mobile.

Last year, we launched the Borealis service between the Twin Cities and Chicago.

And we're also doing a ton of capital investment in infrastructure, things like bridges, tunnels, new maintenance facilities.

In fact, we're spending half a billion dollars a month on new capital investments.

If your flight goes, right?

Thank you, Matt.

Yeah, well, this is a very good question, Danny.

So, I mean, part of the dilemma we have is that there's so much interest in passenger rail these days across the country.

We're seeing ridership surges in all areas.