Passenger Trains > Here is something to pick apart.

Find this on youtube. 

"Amtrak’s Grand Plan for Profitability"

What a joke...The NE Corridor is Profitable.... LOL

You save a lot of money when you cut customer service staff to the bone, don't clean/repair equipment, deny crews legitimate time claims, send out filthy trains, and have a demoralized and overwhelmed employee base. At Penn Station New York, Philly and Chicago, redcaps have been cut so much that ADA passengers are left to stay with the crews until the crews give up and delay the train to help the passengers themselves. Then management arbitrarily cuts the signoff time for T&E to 5 minutes from 10 at the end of their assignment.

Dick Anderson needs to read the book From Worst to First, about Continental Airlines turnaround. Decent read. Amtrak is a toxic, horrible work environment.

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TrainOrders and others have been picking at this for weeks. It's not particularly new.

You are correct. It isn't brand new. But for one thing it is continually irksome every time the subject is brought up because Anderson is so outrageous. The flames are fanned. If it could be possible for him to obtain a substantial following by those who actually believe him that is particularly scarey as it would mean that someone can come up with all kinds of lies with success to themselves. In this case I'd judge it to be those with influence who cannot see anywhere beypnd the NE Corridor.

This man needs to be faced with the facts in public for not only him to digest but also his board.



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What happens to that "$80.00/$45.00 profit per passenger" when the NEC maintenance backlog is $30 billion?  The catenary system alone is a crumbling antique; the new Aceelas will have very few places where they can exceed 135 mph, even fewer 150.

Another rude "glide path to solvency" joke. Meanwhile, now even the Saudis are running high speed trains thru their desert! 



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RRBaron Wrote:
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> Another rude "glide path to solvency" joke.
> Meanwhile, now even the Saudis are running high
> speed trains thru their desert! 

Green field, or is it Yellow field for the Saudis, construction is always easier, cheaper and faster than trying to re-purpose an antique infrastructure while continuing to run full service on it.

RRBaron Wrote:
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> Another rude "glide path to solvency" joke.
> Meanwhile, now even the Saudis are running high
> speed trains thru their desert! 



"Staunch Ally" Saudi Arabia as a model.  Our 2nd best buddy in the whole world.

Let's be more like them.