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[quote user="jeaton"] Don Phillips is held in high regard by railroad "insiders" , including top executives, as one who consistantly got the story right.  If you ever had a chance to read his articles as a transportation reporter for the Washington Post, you would realize that he had an excellent knowledge and understanding of how railroads work.  As a reporter, he is certainly as good as anybody reporting in trade publications aimed at the railraod business,  and may have been the best at that writing for a general circulation newspaper.  He was certainly way beyond the reporter who doesn't know the difference between the conductor and the engineer.  Further, he wrote so that the story could be understood by readers who were not insiders or as knowedgable of the industry as railfans. As I read the column, is see Phillips basicly asking the why Boardman has seemed to have been floating along for many months.  No one beside Boardman seems to know, and he has not granted interviews to Phillips or anyone else who would ask for and report an explanation.[/quote] As the chief audit executive for a major corporation, I sat in on numerous executive committee and board meetings.  Unless management wanted someout outside of these councils to know what transpired in them, no one, including industry knowledgeable reporters, was given a clue.  As you point out, Boardman has not granted Phillips an interview.  So why should I conclude that Phillips has any inside knowledge to buttress his opinions?  Why should I believe that he is in a position to assess Mr. Boardman's leadership skills?
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