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You paint a sick picture when trains are sitting at sidings waiting for a higher priority train to pass, and not necessarily an Amtrak train. Think about it from Amtrak's point of view. Amtrak pays the railroads to run our nation's passenger trains down their tracks with priority. Amtrak, a government agency, is owned and operated by the American people. The government does provide the dispatching service for the airlines, and at one time the Panama Canal. When the government dispatched the Panama Canal, cruise ships were provided priority over cargo. If the railroads cannot provide adequate dispatching, the government should take it over! It could not possibly cost as much as the FAA. <br /> <br />The Texas Eagle and the Sunset Limited lately have had a lot of dispatching problems with the Union Pacific. Amtrak brought out car 10001 and hitched it to the back of them so that one of their vice presidents could see for himself the problems. The Eagle and the Limited on time arrivals were so low recently, at 20 percent, that this was the number one complaint from passengers. Guess what, the trains ran pretty much on time the whole length of car's 10001 journey. <br /> <br />So why does these trains run so poorly when car 10001 isn't hitched on to the back of the Eagle and Sunset Limited? Obviously, the trains can run pretty much on time, if the railroad dispatchers wanted them to. If I was the president of Amtrak, or even the Secretary of Transportation, if a raillroad deliberately slowed my passenger trains as badly as the Union Pacific has delayed the Eagle and Limited, I would take over that railroads dispatching, and pay the dispatchers what they deserved, civil service G-3 pay....the bottom of the barrel.....
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