Compare to bus companies, where the infrastructure is almost entirely not even their problem. The roads are simply dealt with by the government (built by priva

Compare to bus companies, where the infrastructure is almost entirely not even their problem. The roads are simply dealt with by the government (built by private companies, who win contracts from the government). For whatever reason, that's not how we do rail infrastructure for the most part. So, one could argue that Amtrak's rail infrastructure _should_ be entirely off-budget, because really it shouldn't be part of Amtrak at all, to make a comparison to bus companies more valid.