Reinventing Amtrak: The politics of surv
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Anthony Perl; James A. Dunn Jr.
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Article
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1997
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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This article argues that Amtrak's design as a ''quasi-public, for-profit'' corporation was seriously flawed from its beginnings. The corporation was isolated from America's private railroads, and isolated from trust-funding financial mechanisms that supported highways, airports, and mass transit. It