"No passenger railroad in the world makes money, that I'm aware of," he said.

After flirting last year with the idea of derailing the nation's passenger railroad, Washington seems to have come to its senses.

By 1926, the passenger railroad stopped going through Batavia.

Between 1947 and 1957, passenger railroad financial efficiency dropped by 42% per mile.

Her mother often took what were then known as "transportation jobs", serving on the passenger railroads.

No other passenger railroad in the world counts on its customers to bring it that close to breaking even.

It was the worst accident in the passenger railroad's 15-year history.

To survive, the nation's passenger railroad has cut service and raised ticket prices.

Young intended to make C&O the top passenger railroad in the country.

The national passenger railroad has never managed to pay its own way, absorbing $29 billion in federal aid over its 34-year history.