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if you're in the salt mine fixing nuts and bolts as the CEO or President, you're Doing It Wrong. You hire good people that know what they're doing to do it right. But your job at the top of the heap isn't to do people's jobs for them (and in my experience, having a fresh set of eyes and asking...

It's a good thing nobody suggested that here.

The problem with ships is they are sloooooooowwwwwwww. At 20 knots (which is on the faster side), New Bedford to Cape Henry is almost 24 hours, plus at least another 2-3 hours to get into Hampton Roads and tied to a berth somewhere. Cape Henry to Jacksonville is even worse at closer to 30...

That's an awfully broad stereotype you have there.

This "airline guy" crap is really tiresome. Executive leadership is executive leadership, and there's nothing magical about trains that requires one to have spent their entire career in trains to make an effective leader of Amtrak. Once upon a time, in a land far away, I was made the ASW...

Casual observers have no idea what the locomotives are other than perhaps "that one looks new".

It shouldn't, since that isn't what's happening.

7/11 is in fact the start date, and tickets can be booked:

Call and ask for a specific car.

You know for a fact that they don't exist now?

I wouldn't think that a sleeper between WAS and points north would be up to VA.

What good would extending it further into the tunnel have done in the past?

If sleepers are being downgraded to coach because of a lack of cars/staff, the notion without evidence that they're booting people then reselling the space at a higher price is utterly absurd. But hey, anything that feeds the "AmtRAk MAnaGeMEnT SuckS!!!" narrative, right?

My understanding is that it will be relocated and reconstructed as a restaurant. This piece of historic railroad infrastructure will continue to be celebrated.

There are no "yahoos of industry" trying to "upgrade" anything. This project is all about the expansion of the station and air rights over the track. The historical portion will remain in its current glory. Every post immediately after this 10-year old post that you've quoted points this out...

That assumes that such a thing happens to them, which statistically speaking isn't going to happen to most passengers.

The average train rider isn't going to have any clue what these rumors are and isn't going to follow the discussion on a forum about when they may or may not return. When they're back, they'll be loaded into inventory and the average rider will book a trip.

4 years later.... Some new renders of what is to come.... maybe.... someday.... https://www.cfa.gov/system/files/meeting-materials/1b_CFA-16JUN22-1_FRA-WUS_Expansion-priv-dev%28pres-6-15%29.pdf...

Politics have nothing to do with it, I use "Reagan National" about as much as I use "Thurgood Marshall BWI", which is to say "freaking never".

Indeed. Interest because they withheld your money from you for so long? In the immortal words of Steven Tyler, "Dream On".