The "Selden Plan"

and Supporting Documents

The "Selden Plan"

A Plan to Reorganize the National Railroad Passenger Corporation by Andrew C. Selden 31 August 2000
- Appendix -- Executive Summary, Rail Passenger Service Act of 2001
URPA Strategic Vision & Plan for Amtrak by Andrew C. Selden 19 November 2001
Suggested Improvements For Railroad Passenger Service by Michael E. McGinley, P.E., 5 March 2002
Corridor Operations, Long Distance Operations, and a Transitional Plan to move from current practice to future methods of operation
By Dr. Adrian Herzog. 3 December 2000
Amtrak 2 - The Basic Plan - Adrian Herzog post to the All-Aboard mailing list, 26 October 1999

Detail

Concepts Of The Successful Long Distance Train Of The Future 20 September 2005
Three Radical Ideas Concerning Amtrak by Andrew Selden, presented to the National Railway Historical Society in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 2 July 2004
Analysis of Amtrak System Indicates Long Distance Trains, Not Corridors, Are The Moneymakers 30 November 2001
An Introduction to Matrix Theory for Passenger Trains by Dr. Adrian Herzog 31 August 2000
On the Matrix Theory and potential Amtrak service changes in TWA, 21 July 2006.

Commentary

30 January 2006: Re-Thinking America's Rail Passenger Service by Andrew C. Selden
Amtrak in Perspective -- why do we need passenger trains today? by Bruce Richardson, October 2005
Concepts Of The Successful Long Distance Train Of The Future 20 September 2005.
On Competition: The "Invisible Hand" by Andrew Selden, June 2002
Corridor and Long Distance Myths and Realities by Andrew C. Selden, 11 March 2002
"You Want More Rail Passenger Service? You Need The Long Distance Trains!" Comments by Noel Braymer, RailPAC President March 2002
Employee Assignment Comparison by Dennis Larson 4 December 2001
Numbers, numbers and more numbers by Dennis Larson 23 November 2001
British Railway Nationalisation and Privatisation by Dennis McDonald updated April 2002

Perspective

Towards An Amtrak-Free National Rail Network - A 1996 document
URPA Strategic Points On Which To Build A New Privatized National Rail Passenger System - A 1996 document
Ron Sheck's "Amtrak 90," envisioning a dramatically enlarged national rail passenger route matrix
"How to get Amtrak out of the woods" by Andrew C. Selden, TRAINS magazine, January 1986, pp. 24-30. Excerpt: Sell the Northeast Corridor.

In Support of Mr. Selden for Amtrak President

Andrew C. Selden, Resume, on the Briggs & Morgan site
Andrew Selden: Questions & Answers (1998)