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Dave, and folks, The problem is there are just a few people that know what they're doing. It takes an entire corporate culture that knows what it's doing, and a will to do so. This coupled with a true mission. I don't have a direction. I just had a discussion. I used to know what the cure was but over the last 10 years I haven't a clue. I know that when I worked in train service on The Milwaukee, in the '70s, the operation of Amtrak passenger trains was held in the highest priority catagory by all concerned. From Amtrak, to our Division Superintendent, trainmasters, dispatchers, etc. It all came from the old school of operating timetables and standard watches and time. It is merely my opinion that too many things, and people have disappeared from the scene, and a whole new culture has to be reinstalled...and inspired. Now...if that can be done at Amtrak, and proper funding provided, I'm for it. I'm just now having doubts that will happen. I believe strongly that Dave Gunn is the man for the job, and he has the knowledge and will that I spoke of. I have a number of friends that work for Amtrak that have the will and knowledge status. But from what I hear is that when the good ideas are advanced, it gets shot down. For a long time the culture I speak of would eshew anything good that was done in the past, merely because it was done in the past. One of the more recent presidents of Amtrak, as I was told, would say, "But that was then, this is now." That can be a very dismissive attitude, and in wholesale doses, very damaging. "The preceeding is a statement of mere opinion born of experience in the field. The authoir claims not to have any magic bullet cures for the above mentioned thoughts." Mitch
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