text: When Trump is cutting the Federal  Transportation budget by 13% and wants to  "focus on the Northeast Corridor" for Amtrak from Washington D. C. to Boston, this is Easter Bunny stuff.
   
  "The NEC, which covers routes between Washington D.C. and Boston, is Amtrak’s only profitable line."
  "Over 2,200 trains travel along the NEC every day.  NEC serviced 11.9 million riders in the 2016 fiscal year."
  
  OPB showed the crumbling infrastructure on the NEC just tonight on television.  
  
  They are going to get what few Amtrak dollars there are for the next four years.  
  
  The few people going from Eugene to Portland or Seattle are not going to get the big bucks needed to be able to provide reliable, timely and consistent service. 
  
  
  
  http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-budget-proposal-amtrak-2017-3