Passenger Trains > Boardman Interview With C-Span

Amtrak CEO was on C-Span yesterday for almost 45 minutes.  It was a combination of interview and call-in questions.  They covered a lot of topics.  The transcript is rough, as they often are, but you'll get the idea.  There's also a link to the audio.

http://www.c-span.org/video/?400752-4/washington-journal-amtrak-president-joseph-boardman

Forget C-Span.  What would really,really, really,  be interesting would be a 45 minute interview with us railfans.

Think of the important questions we could ask him! -- not like the ones I heard on C-Span like--"Why isn't there a train from Topeka to New York?: or "why do all trains go through Chicago?".​
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ronald321 Wrote:
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> Forget C-Span.  What would really,really, really,
>  be interesting would be a 45 minute interview
> with us railfans.
>
> Think of the important questions we could ask him!
> -- not like the ones I heard on C-Span like--"Why
> isn't there a train from Topeka to New York?: or
> "why do all trains go through Chicago?".​
> ​
>I think that was a very good question.  First you take people a couple of hundred miles too far North,
and then you force them into this absurd 6 hour plus layover to go to New York.  It's ridiculous!
And if you are going to Philadelphia or Baltimore, forget about it! 
He made it seem like there aren't any railroad tracks East of St. Louis.  Duh!
>