Whats is ur favorite Railroad Quote Good or Bad

[daveklepper]

When told about a problem at North White and White Plains stations when electrification was extended to Brewster and almost all trains were then the shiny stainless-with-blue-stripe electrics, where now local passengers were boarding the expresses to Grand Central and being told by the conductor they would have to pay for extending their Fordham or Mt. Vernon tickets or whatever to Manhattan and then also buy a return ticket from 125th Street back to their destination, and that perhaps I ought to have a $5000 consulting job to do an adequate job on electronic signage and intelligible public address, the Metro North manager replied:

"We expect our passengers to read our timetables."

I thought of answering: "But your trains don't always run on time."

But I kept quiet. Actually the trains usually did and do run on time. The problem is the Grand Central express, 1st stop 125th, leaves usually about two or three minutes before the local. I hope the situation has been corrected, and I have not been there for about eight and a half years. Anybody know what kind of signage and PA those two White Plains stations have?

One thing Metro North did do. They decided it was better public relations for the conductor to issue a special form that would get the passenger to his destination without two extra fares.

[Anonymous]

"it learned me never to kick a skunk."
commodore vanderbilt upon buying
150,000 shares of erie rr stock from
jay gould.

[jcavinato]

When working for the C&O/B&O many years ago, someone actually said to me with a serious look and tone of voice, "But, look son, we might not make money on these moves, but we make it up in their volume."

[Anonymous]

I once saw a quote attributed to a motor man on a MBTA train.
"The bad news is that we're out of gas, the good news is we arn't in a plane."