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Jis...I'm doing far more than most people would think....

My personal take on this ? NARP= National Association of Retarded Passengers...it's high time for a leader that makes sense and champions railroading.

Maybe the "BIG" surprise is an Amtrak official working hard at his desk in a glass cage in the middle of Washington Union Station...oh wait, I said the dirty word~ WORK !!! :lol:

Agreed...just start the train a few minutes earlier and all the switching time is moot....

Like the old goat says in the Geico commercials Dave....Naaaahhh, Naaaahh, Naaaahh :lol: It's probably something simple like the 50% bonus for fall trips. :cool:

Great report...gives us a better insight into what Jim Hudson has been experiencing. His Taylor trips can turn into nightmares quicly! :help:

Well Dutch, Transamerica has a five year contract with five one year extensions. I can promise you the leadership of this Caltrain management team will be more responsive and transparent than any other Amtrak contracted service I've ever experienced. Go to caltrain.com and read the reasons just...

Shoot Jerry...I didn't finish my second degree until I was 55~ I was having too much fun playing train. :lol:

Whatever Dutch...Amtrak had the contract from the time the SP gave it up in the '80's. I think it deserves to be called getting the boot... If Obama gets defeated in the next election don't we say he was voted out of office ??? I don't know where you're going with this ???

I feel sorry for you and your daughter. Wires were crossed resulting in your being misinformed. I do have to give Amtrak an A plus for not putting pax and crews in harms way. I live 8 miles from the Hammond, LA station and we had winds of 60 mph and at least six inches of rain (my rain gauge...

Can I have two wishes :lol: ??? My second would be; transparency applies to more than a roll of scotch tape ! :cool:

Just when is somebody going to do something about taking the flag stop status off of Slidell, LA so we can get our broken up 264 foot platform that requires a double stop each and every day fixed? Approaching 10,000 boardings and de-trainings this fiscal year we are not a flag stop community...

TRANSAMERICA won the operating contract to run, maintain and crew 86 trains a day. This other deal sounds like an outside contractor who is doing the duties of an agency representing Caltrain.

In a unanimous vote today (9/1) the Caltrain board awarded the San Francisco to San Jose/Gilroy Caltrain contract to Transamerica, a division of Herzog Transit Services.

In what century ??? :lol:

Back in the birth days of Amtrak the Missouri Pacific would get Amtrak to pay for an entire system TT re-print if any Amtrak (first class) trains changed times even by five minutes. This went on for about five of six years until someone, hopefully at Amtrak, came up with the idea of handing out...

I have info from an impeccable source that Alabama is broke and couldn't put up two cents to re-start Sunset East service. This is the old "he did it" story~ "We wanted to run service (service suspension) BUT the states wouldn't come up with the $$$". The dead horse is now officially buried...

Quite obviously Amtrak doesn't want us to know..... :cool:

Well put...AMEN !!! I'm fed up with double talk, or half talk, from some Amtrak officials. We are attempting to get Slidell, LA posted as a regular stop. With about 10,000 riders this year it makes no sense to anybody but Amtrak not to do so. The reason~ flag stops do not require anything but an...

Agrred; some but with the safety culture Amtrak is trying to instill on employees you'll probably still see double stops at crew change points where the platform is not long enough for the engine crew to swap out without having to roll down an embankment or "walk the rocks."