Amtrak David Gunn Last Day at Amtrak is Nov.1

[CSXrules4eva]

NO I don't want Daivd to go. I liked his ideas and his attenitiveness to get Amtrak on the right track. Well I wonder what he has in store for himself. I wander who Amtrak has in mind for their new CEO.

[Junctionfan]

Conspiracy theory time..........

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Limitedclear

More rumors. I'll believe it when I see it...

LC

you mean "hear about it"

chances are you won't see it person to person.

[Anonymous]

More rumors. I'll believe it when I see it...

LC

[mucable]

The fact is that AMTRAK has been severly undercapitalized from the outset. I suspect that if it is dismantled this time, the only thing left will be the NEC, which means that all us guys in the boondocks get to subsidize NEW YORK CITY, BOSTON, BALTIMORE and WASHINGTON, DC. Isn't that equitable? Doesn't that just give you a warm, fuzzy feeling?

[AntonioFP45]

Reistrup, Boyd, Claytor, Warrington, Downs, Gunn, and some others I forgot. Amtrak presidents have come and gone. Some decent, some.....that should've never been.

I've been watching the Amtrak crisis since the 70s. Somehow, someway Amtrak winds up continuing, and even limping along. The muckety-mucks in congress will feed Amtrak "just enough pocket change" to continue with the same old "Yahoos" like John McCain hollering the rhetoric: "You need to reform!"

Though I am conservative, I do compliment the democrats for their willingness to support Amtrak. I've used Amtrak......and will use it again. Service was clean and comfortable and IMHO better than what you get on a Southwest Airlines 737 or a Greyhound MC10.

As for those of you uttering "Kill the beast" because you think Amtrak will be re-organized into something better, please think realistically!!: Don't forget that over and over since the 1970s we've seen that once a rail related service is lost.....................99% of the time it won't return![:0][B)]

Wake up America! Pitts out!

[bobwilcox]

I'm not usually this pessimistic but maybe it is time to create a crisis and come out at the end with a viable core that can add service in the future as the highways freeze up between urban centers.

[Modelcar]

....Wouldn't it be nice, if we're really going to send another 75 billion to Iraq, one of the oil richest countries in the world....after the first of the year....that we could maybe use 1.8 billion of that as Mr. Gunn requisted, to run our passenger rail system in this country.....Just a little something for us once.

[Modelcar]

...That is a real possibility as it stands this Friday morning....I believe not too many experts can say with any authority who is going to win. {The Presidency}.
On the matter of finding someone who can master the reins at Amtrak taking over from Mr. Gunn.....I don't think it's a matter of finding someone who can "do better than Gunn", I believe we better hope someone can run it at all.....If it is true Mr. Gunn has resigned, then it's a matter of necessity. It seems to me it's still in the same sinking boat...If the money requested by Mr. Gunn is not available....Amtrak is now in deep, maybe unsolvable problems. Is it time to start over...{Seems politically impossible}, and if it shuts down we'll hear the whails from the NEC clear out here in Indiana.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by ajmiller

QUOTE: Originally posted by espeefoamer

After Nov.2nd John Kerry will be looking for work. Maybe Amtrak will hire him.
(Hide in bunker,wait until shooting stops[;)]).

Naw, he'll still be a senator from the People's Republic of Massachusetts.

SO, let me get this perfectly straight... I get to laugh at you when he is elected right?

[Junctionfan]

Bush?

[PNWRMNM]

Dave,

Why?

Mac

[daveklepper]

I just hope and pray you are wrong.

[PNWRMNM]

Let us all hope you are right BaltACD! No body has had the gusts to kill the beast yet.

Mac

[BaltACD]

Just remember, Congress designed Amtrak to fail and Bush intends to see that Congress is successful.

[Junctionfan]

What the heck is with Amtrak? Which genious are they coming up with who thinks they can do better than Gunn? He did a good job with the TTC in Toronto, I would think that he would be a vital component to the board of directors and so would try to do everything to keep him on. Boy am I easily fooled on this issue huh.....

[railman]

Hhe's done a lot for Amtrak and taken very unpopular stands among the halls of Congress. The next in line has plenty of work cut out to keep it all together.

[ajmiller]

QUOTE: Originally posted by espeefoamer

After Nov.2nd John Kerry will be looking for work. Maybe Amtrak will hire him.
(Hide in bunker,wait until shooting stops[;)]).

Naw, he'll still be a senator from the People's Republic of Massachusetts.

[Anonymous]

That stinks. Amtrak is toast!

[UPTRAIN]

He could become their president, then rehire that conductor that was fired due to their comment for their train being held up.

[MP57313]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jeaton
What was the source of your information?

[#ditto] Trains News Wire did not mention this. Must have missed the cutoff.

[espeefoamer]

After Nov.2nd John Kerry will be looking for work. Maybe Amtrak will hire him.
(Hide in bunker,wait until shooting stops[;)]).

[jeaton]

Just curious. What was the source of your information? Are you on the Amtrak Board of Directors or do you have a good inside connection?

I haven't seen any news on this and as yet there is no press release on the Amtrak site.

[conrailman]

Gill Mallory is take over in Nov or early Dec. I heard he is great Guy.[:)]

[Modelcar]

...It's anyone's guess now....I'm guessing it's downhill from here....Maybe disassembled into regional units...or who knows, complete phase out. This is what the present administration wants. So I suppose it depends on where the new fellow is coming from. I don't blame Gunn for leaving....No money to run the system with. I think he gave plenty of warning....something had to change.

[UPTRAIN]

I wonder what changes the new president will have in mind, they got a semi-good thing going and don't need it to be screwed up again....

[conrailman]

David Gunn will be returning to retirement Nov.1 of this year. The Board has a sucessor in mind but is holding off till after the elections to make the Annoncement. [^][:)][8D]