amtrak
Amtrak - the US Government doing "business" and running up staggering losses
House Transportation Committee chairman John Mica (Repub, FL) says his investigations into Amtrak's huge losses have found among other things that it manages to lose heavily on food and beverage service on its trains even though it has a monopoly and sets high prices.
Amtrak chief has to use turnpikes when his train breaks down
By Peter Samuel on March 31, 2011
Amtrak's chief executive Joseph Boardman was due to travel from Union Station in Washington DC to Wilmington DE by an 
Amtrak Acela express train this week for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the newly renovated Wilmington Joseph R Biden Railroad Station.
