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I would not know Joseph Boardman or any of the other members of the Amtrak leadership team if I fell across them.  Moreover, I don't have any inside information about the inner workings of Amtrak. Having said that, here is a situation that causes me to wonder about Boardman's leadership. A proposal to switch the Texas Eagle to a daily Chicago/LAX train, with a connecting train between New Orleans and San Antonio, was floated.  Amongst other things the proposed schedule would have had better call times for Houston, Tucson, and Phoenix, which are major population centers, and it would have changed the layover time in San Antonio from most of the night to a hour or two.  Supposedly the proposal died because the UP wanted $700 million to upgrade its facilities to hoist the train daily, and Amtrak management did not want to take their numbers to task. What's preventing Amtrak from improving the thrice a week schedule, i.e. improve the layover and calling times per the preceding paragraph? Along similar lines, does anyone know whether the UP required a significant infusion of money to upgrade its facilities when the Eagle was switched from a thrice a week train to its current daily schedule between Chicago and San Antonio? It is no secret that I would discontinue the long distance trains if I were in charge.  Having said that, as long as Amtrak is required to run them to keep the political winds at bay, it should run them as well as possible and organize their schedules to serve their major markets at the best possible times.
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