Especially when you're Joe Biden, and you get to ride it every night on the taxpayers' dime. (And at a normal ticket price of at least $125 per trip on the Acela Express from DC to Wilmington, that's a lot of dimes). Not to mention having your son the lobbyist on its board.

Dan Riehl's post on Biden's love of the rails includes this Wikiquote:

Government aid to Amtrak was controversial from the beginning. The formation of Amtrak in 1971 was criticized as a bailout serving corporate rail interests and union railroaders, not the traveling public. Critics assert that Amtrak has proven incapable of operating as a business and that it does not provide valuable transportation services meriting public support,[50] a "mobile money-burning machine."[51] They argue that subsidies should be ended, national rail service terminated, and the Northeast Corridor turned over to private interests.

(More on Biden's lobbyist son, whom the Washington Post notes is accused, along with Biden's brother, "in two lawsuits of defrauding a former business partner and an investor of millions of dollars in a hedge fund deal that went sour," from Gateway Pundit.)