This needs to stop. It might be a reasonable luxury if Amtrak were supplying food service to all its trains...
Mr. Peter came to visit him sooner than expected leading to a case of premature percussive sublimation?
(Read the Peter Principle and you will know what that means)
Yea--and John Mica told me personally in the late 1980's that "he" was a railfan (this was before he was elected to the House of Representatives from my district in Florida) and you see where that got us all!
He very well may have been a railfan, but he most decidedly was not an Amtrak fan.
Perhaps he just wanted to see Amtrak make a profit because he was a railfan. I'm not saying I agree with him, or that this is the case, but everyone sees things differently.
Not sure why you think credit is due for a CEO waving.
I don’t know - Not being smug or superior and ignoring the railfan (as some big shot executives would?) not saying it as an excuse to any other issues many of us have with him or that it means that he’s a great CEO - merely giving him credit for being down to earth enough to wave to a rail fan - nothing more nothing less.
Miami Intermodal Center. That is the station at Miami International Airport.
Briefly known as Miami Central Station until Brightline co-opted that name.
Presumably. South end of the MIC is at NW 21st Street, south end of the Hialeah yard (where it looks like there's a crossover to the Tri-Rail tracks) is just south of NW 92nd Terrace, those streets are on the 10/mi Miami grid, so about 7 miles.
Yes. The only place to turn the trains is the loop track around the existing station.
It's about 2 miles from King Street Station to the Coach Wye, which is pretty behind the Costco just past the Spokane Street Viaduct. Somewhat less from Amtrak's yard at Holgate Street.
Either that or they could hook up an engine at the other end and drag the whole thing from/to the yard. The shunting engine need not be fully hooked up with HEP and all. It just needs to have air connected for braking of course. This is standard practice in India for delivering consists to terminal stations from yards which may be many Km away. The road locomotive will need to be staffed during the shunting move to fulfill the requirement of the HEP delivery unit being monitored by a human.
Yes. But if a shunter was used that would require a separate crew unless they want it to deliver the HEP too. And in any case they will need additional personnel to do the coupling/uncoupling at MIC.
Shows my British Colony background which sometimes shows through, as also it does in spellings of things. Never quite Americanized fully since it seemed somewhat pointless to worry too much about it
. Switcher is an unknown term in India. But hey I do use "consist" instead of "rake" 
Brings to mind the famous quote attributed to Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw and Churchill about two Countries Seperated by a Common Language!Shows my British Colony background which sometimes shows through, as also it does in spellings of things. Never quite Americanized fully since it seemed somewhat pointless to worry too much about it
