Name: AmtrakDying 长途列车内部（Inside Amtrak’s Dying Long-Distance Trains | WSJ）
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- [Journalist Voiceover] Long-distance passenger routes

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in the U.S. may be riding on borrowed time.

and allow it to cut its longer, unprofitable routes,

essentially halting service to rural communities.

The company's management sees opportunity for profits

and longterm growth in shorter distance travel.

- Shorter haul, inner-city service between big city pairs.

- [Journalist Voiceover] In the next year, U.S. lawmakers

Members of congress are coming under pressure

- I'm afraid we're position rural America to fail.

- We're beginning our journey from New York to New Orleans.

We're riding Acela train down to Washington first.

Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Washington D.C.

keeping the northeast corridor in a good state of repair

in new service between cities that by train

- [Journalist Voiceover] We spoke with Amtrak's executive

- Amtrak's view is we've got a big opportunity

The less that say, 300-mile distance corridors

where we see a lot of our population growth occurring.

- Congress does recognize that trains can play a bigger role

and to get there, we have to invest in our assets.

- You're talking even larger investments?

Over time we're gonna need to invest more than we have.

- [Journalist Voiceover] The question now is

whether it's executives plan to also ask for money

In Washington, we board The Crescent Line to New Orleans.

It's a little smaller than I was expecting.

- [Journalist Voiceover] As we ride south through Virginia,

- [Journalist Voiceover] Meals are included

- Better than what you get on an airplane.

- [Journalist Voiceover] Our junior roomette, one way,

Most Crescent passengers spend the 26-hour

D.C. to New Orleans journey in this section.

Around 2:30 a.m., we stop in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Last year, this city had the fifth-largest

Maybe it shows up in the middle of the night,

maybe it shows up on time, maybe it doesn't.

- [Journalist Voiceover] Amtrak says chronic, long delays

its trains ride on rails owned by freight companies.

It's battling some of these companies in the courts

the company's leadership says it's current

long-distance services don't serve enough of a purpose

- It' 8:30 a.m., we just arrived in Atlanta,

well, a station that's on the outskirts of Atlanta.

This sleeper train is the only passenger train

There's a 100-year-old woman who just got onboard the train.

- [Journalist Always wanted to ride a train?

- [Journalist Voiceover] Annie Grissom is celebrating

- What are you gonna do when you get there?

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