Everyone Loves the Electric (part n)

Amtrak has just posted their ridership and revenue statistics for fiscal 2008, and they're quite detailed and interesting. One thing stands out though: 55% of Amtrak's revenue comes from the Northeast Corridor, which carries 38% of the total ridership. If you do the math, you find that the average Acela customer pays $138, while the average Surfliner customer pays $18. For all that talk of how Amtrak needs to get rid of the NEC, it's still by far their most successful route, and the only one that has attracted large numbers of high-paying customers.