Amtrak: Time to Abandon This Trainwreck
- A 2005 report from the Reason Foundation presents an argument for derailing Amtrak.
- http://www.reason.org/apr2005/rail_transportation.pdf

Replacing Amtrak
- 1997 paper by Joseph Vranich calls Amtrak "a failed national experiment" and proposes alternatives. From the Reason Foundation website.
- http://www.reason.org/ps235.html

Opportunities to Improve Passenger Rail Service
- 2002 testimony on private-sector reform options. From the Heritage Foundation website.
- http://www.heritage.org/Research/Regulation/Test030702.cfm

Proposed Amtrak Bailout Would Bust the Budget
- Opposes the High Speed Rail Act of 2001. From the Heritage Foundation website.
- http://www.heritage.org/Research/Regulation/BG1482.cfm

New Amtrak Boondoggle May Outdo All Others
- 2000 Heritage Foundation policy paper opposes the High Speed Rail Investment Act.
- http://www.heritage.org/Research/Regulation/BG1392.cfm

End of the Line for Amtrak's Current Management
- 2001 Heritage Foundation paper argues for new management.
- http://www.heritage.org/Research/Regulation/BG1412.cfm

Congress Should Accept Industry Offers to Buy Amtrak
- 1998 Heritage Foundation paper argues for privatization.
- http://www.heritage.org/Research/Regulation/BG1179.cfm

Amtrak's Impending Collapse Offers One-Time Opportunity for Reform
- 2002 Heritage Foundation paper says Amtrak needs private-sector reforms, not more "muddling through."
- http://www.heritage.org/Research/Regulation/BG1547.cfm

Help Passenger Rail by Privatizing Amtrak
- 2001 Cato Institute paper says that Amtrak's problems require its liquidation.
- http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-419es.html

Amtrak at Twenty-Five, End of the Line for Taxpayer Subsidies
- 1996 Cato Institute policy paper says subsidies are based on myths.
- http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-266.html

A Plan to Liquidate Amtrak
- 2002 Cato Institute policy paper advocates bankruptcy liquidation.
- http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-425es.html