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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by daveklepper Mitch, your experience is important of course. But it takes time to reverse things and David Gunn has had neither the time nor the money to do the job thoroughly. I don't nered to tell you who Doug Riddell is. Just got a wonderful letter from him. His son Ryan at 20 is doing a great job as a conductor on the Capitol Limited, and apparently that is one well-run operation. [/quote] Dave, We're in agreement with the time and funding thing. It won't happen overnight at all. It wouldn't happen over a decade. My comments are based on my personal frustration with the entirety of it all. As for Ryan Riddell, I'm pleased to hear of a young person doing a fine job running his job. I'd like to meet him. I met a young conductor on the Hiawatha service a few weeks ago that knew what he was doing. When I was a youngster conductor on the Turbos and Hiawatha, I knew what I was doing. But it's not enough to mitigate problems with a lot of dissorganized hoo-hah going on at CUS and other not-on-board scenarios at Amtrak, throughout the years that gives me pause on their culture. Remember, their first big emergency was to change all the uniforms, re-title all the jobs, and paint the ceilings purple. From this I never saw success. From a 1973 Amtrak employee pamphlet... Conductor- to be changed to "On Board Operations Officer" Chef- " Food Specialist" Steward- " Maitre D" Tickets- " Lift Documents" (my favorite) It took their culture 32 years to figure out what a conductor's cap should look like. Mitch
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