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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by trainfinder22 [MR GUNN is Playing Chicken with the feds again in that he thinks that all Passenger Rail should be subsidised like a National Subway system. Since he has no experance with Freight which have ALWAYS subsidized passenger service since day one running Passenger and freight together is a foreing concept to a TRANSIT MAN.. We NEED National high speed LTL service as a matter of national policy to unclog our roads and have cleaner air.[:)] [/quote] David Gunn was one on John Reed's and Larry Cena's whizz kids at ATSF during the late 60's and early 70's at the time when they ran the "Super C". So is he very familar with freight railroading. I think he it not so adverse to the concept of M&E but with a very hostile Republican Administration and Congress he has to make sure Amtrak is a functional and in good repair 79 MPH passenger train network outside the NEC and in good repair NEC. Before venturing into creating other revenue streams. I also think that Ed Ellis' idea was a good one but it did not pan out in the execution. Switching those MHC's and Roadrailers in and out in a train full of passengers in the dark w/o the HEP running is not the same as loading pallets of US Mail into the cargo hold of 767 or 757 passenger jetliner along with the paying passengers' luggage. The former is greatly inconvenienced the latter doesn't even know what is going on and they don't mind that a little time is given as long as they know that their own luggage is being loaded into the very same plane that they are on
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