# Reason for Enhanced Success | America's Trains Inc.

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- Published at: 2021-09-17 21:03:10 UTC
- Updated at: 2025-07-09 03:20:53 UTC

## Author
Barry Jones

## Subject
America's Trains Inc.

## Content
Among other attributesCONCEPT - Multiple, conjunctive products and revenue streams; one can offset the other - Adequate profits occur if only one primary product is sold or if sales are less than 50% of projections - Piggybacks Amtrak services, 30 routes, over 500 stations and 21,300 miles of tracks; at nominal cost - Simple, flexible route selection, as part of existing Amtrak trains, no planning costs.  LUCRATIVE PRICING - Economically below comparable foreign rail and resort vacation competitors - Ample room for price increases - No low season reduced prices; cars are moved to desirable weather locations.SALES EASE - Huge, surplus, fastest growing leisure markets, click on luxury vacations, and/or rail vacations, and/or Train’Shares (timeshare) - Established corporate interest - Surplus, pent up, growing demand - Excess, growing traction - No meaningful, similar travel product competition in the USA - Continuing media exposure, interest - Optimum sales already assured for a couple of years.REDUCED INVENTORY COSTS - Car costs occur after advance sales assure high occupancy; avoids surplus inventory - Pool of available cars; equal mechanically and with superior interiors after improvements, compared to Amtrak - Rebuilt cars cost 1/3rd the price of newly built cars - Per bedroom costs are under 60% of the cost for competitive luxury cruise and resort products.SUNSTANTIALLY REDUCED EXPENSES - No cost for most route, timetable or related service planning and development * - Reduced switching (moving cars) costs at layovers and between trains * - Favorable arrangements for car layover services * - No sales office startup costs; offices already exist. * Provided by Amtrak.