Amtrak and the Freight Roads

[dakotafred]

Sam1

Time to end this discussion.

 

There she goes again. Whilst Sam may have been an accountant, she was obviously born to be a traffic cop.

[Anonymous]

dakotafred

Sam1

Time to end this discussion.

 

There she goes again. Whilst Sam may have been an accountant, she was obviously born to be a traffic cop. 

You can discuss the irrelevancies, the misinformation, and the speculations regarding this thread until the end of time for all that I care.

I did  not say anything about shutting down the discussion, although I could not help but notice with some satisfaction your inappropriate comments helped lock down the discussion on what will replace coal. You apparently thought that my suggestion to get on topic was a recommendation to shut down the discussion, which it wasn't, and used totally inappropriate language to make your point.

Fortunately, the moderator noted the inappropriateness of your comments and locked the discussion. It should have happened long before I as well as 14 others brought it to his attention.

Had you paid attention to my posts, you would have noticed several years ago that I made clear that my initial handle, Samantha, was my cat's name.  As is often the case, you have drawn the wrong conclusion with respect to my gender.  Or perhaps not!  What difference does it make?

[BaltACD]

I am sick and tired of the 'thread appropriate police' - threads go where the posters take them - when they get tired of responding the thread falls off the front page into oblivion.  If one doesn't like where a thread has gone - leave the thread alone!  Internet forums 101!

[Anonymous]

BaltACD

I am sick and tired of the 'thread appropriate police' - threads go where the posters take them - when they get tired of responding the thread falls off the front page into oblivion.  If one doesn't like where a thread has gone - leave the thread alone!  Internet forums 101! 

If I think the discussion is wide of the presenting subject, I will say so!  If you don't like it, don't pay any attention to my comments.  By the way, who gave you the authority to tell me what to do?

In the case of the discussion about what will replace coal, the monitor got 14 comments re: the direction the discussion was taking, which was irrelevant to the presenting topic, and he rightly locked it.

I did not recommend that the discussion be locked.  I did not recommend that this discussion be shut down. I recommended that the what will replace coal discussion get back to the presenting topic. I noted that it was time to end this discussion because of the wildly speculative comments that totally missed the mark.

Goodnight! 

[zugmann]

BaltACD

I am sick and tired of the 'thread appropriate police' - threads go where the posters take them - when they get tired of responding the thread falls off the front page into oblivion.  If one doesn't like where a thread has gone - leave the thread alone!  Internet forums 101!

But think about all the awesomely over-moderated sites out there that everyone loves.

yeah, I can't think of one, either. 

And semi-on topic:  nearby where I work, it's usually Amtrak that delays the freight trains from working.  So it works both ways.

[n012944]

When I work a desk that has Amtrak, I tell the trains, you are going in the hole for Amtrak.  For the most part, the "big picture" is not that had to figure out for the crews.  

[Anonymous]

n012944

When I work a desk that has Amtrak, I tell the trains, you are going in the hole for Amtrak.  For the most part, the "big picture" is not that had to figure out for the crews.

I appreciate your observation.  Having grown up in Altoona, I knew many engineers, fireman, conductors, etc. Most of them were the fathers of my friends. Some of them were friends of my father, and they frequently showed up at the house for a beer or two with my dad.

All up the PRR employees that I knew were smart, capable, knowledgeable, and friendly. Most of them knew a great deal about the PRR and, more importantly, at least from my perspective, they took great pride in their role on the PRR. They were more than willing to share insights with a young whipper snapper who had a hundred questions for them.

Whether they worked the Middle Division or the Pittsburgh Division, they knew the railroad like the backs of their hands. They knew where the problems were, why they were there, and how to deal with them. Even more impressive, many of them were PRR stockholders, and they had a pretty good idea of the financial health of the company.

The notion that railroad crews don't know what is going on up and down the line, at least their portion of it, probably more often than not is wrong.