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Amtrak says NS & CSX delay Capitol Limited

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<p>[quote user="n012944"]</p> <p> </p> <div class="quote-header"> </div> <blockquote class="quote"> <div class="quote-user">oltmannd</div> <div class="quote-content"> <p>Of course the Amtrak reports are based on Amtrak data which comes from the opinion of the conductor on board the train at the time.  </p> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <p> </p> </div> </blockquote> <div class="quote-footer"> </div> <p> Yep.  I have caught Amtrak's conductors lying on delay reports before. [/quote]</p> <p>In what capacity?  How often did you detect an Amtrak conductor lying about the cause of a delay, i.e. what per cent of the total incidents did you detect?  Was it a one-off or a wide spread problem.  Were your observations taken from the system as a whole, i.e. every route that Amtrak runs, or was it confined to just one host railroad or one division of a host railroad?</p> <p>Were you able to project your sample - hopefully it was more than one - to the system as a whole to determine the extent of misreporting?</p> <p>Was the discrepancy that you noted subsequently picked up by an Amtrak auditor or an auditor for the host railroad.</p> <p>The Amtrak incentive payments to the host carriers are determined by on-time performance.  Obviously, if the problem is Amtrak's, it would not affect the incentive payment to the host carrier.  On the other hand, if the host railroad is at fault, it would have an impact on the incentive.  </p> <p>Amtrak and the host railroads have a strong motive to audit the delay reports to make sure that they are reasonable.  Auditors don't catch everything, but if there is wide spread cheating, they are likely to uncover it over time. </p>
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