A caller the first hour recited some numbers about Amtrak/plain travel that I doubted. While total daily passenger trips on all trains in the U.S. are in the hundreds of thousands (Penn Station alone handles 400,000 daily passengers), Amtrak itself carries about 60,000 (2001 statistics) passengers a day. Peanuts compared to the roughly 1.75 million passengers that travel by airline each day (2000 statistics).