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Amtrak bashing? That's nothing new for us to hear at Amtrak. Gabe, if you lived on the Northeast Corridor, you may form a different opinion. We own the Northeast Corridor, we control the Northeast Corridor. When our trains are run on other lines, I think there is where the problem lies. I'm not into the politics, and, I can understand the freight lines having to make special room for Amtrak - and, it is "their railroad". We like President Gunn's stance - don't fund us properly, I'll shut it down. We've been waiting for someone like President Gunn to come along. Someone who doesn't live in Fantasy Land. Former Amtrak President Tom Downs before a Congressional hearing had stated "shut down the Northeast Corridor and you'll need thousands of fully loaded DC-9 jets to move the masses that we do per year". I had wondered if that was a bit of a stretch on the facts. But, a DC-9 holds about 99 passengers, not much more than a fully loaded passenger car. So, when I see a "short" Amtrak train with just 6 Amfleet cars enroute to New York, I am looking at about 6 DC-9 jets going by me on rails. Maybe out in Indiana there is poor OTP (On Time Performance), but, what is the true root cause (bottom line) for those delays? And, as was stated earlier, we're under funded. Either fund us properly, or, let us go. So far, we haven't been let go. President Reagan's era was one of the worst times for Amtrak. Even his Transportation Secretary, David Stockman, recanted his Amtrak bashings once Reagan's terms had ended.
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