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<p>[quote user="henry6"]</p> <p> </p> <blockquote> <div><img src="/TRCCS/Themes/trc/images/icon-quote.gif" /> <b>Sir Madog:</b></div> <div> <p> </p> <p>I have been following this thread with great interest and a lot of disbelief in what I had to read here. I won´t comment on individual contributions, instead I ´d like to suggest to watch this little video and understand the message in there.</p> <p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4SuiSURDyQ"><b>Wheels of Steel</b></a></p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p> </p> </div> </blockquote> <p> </p> <p>I'm not sure what you're trying to say here, Sir Madog.  This video is about the PRR which hasn't been around for almost 50 years.  We are not working on what has transpired in the past but on a new thing based on 21st Century philosophies, procedures. and needs, redifining rail passenger services and trains from one railroad private carrier like the PRR to all railroads, all markets, all needs.  We've gotta throw out everything we used to do and figure out what we've got to do to make it germain to today's needs and politics.  I don't know what you mean by reading in disbelief here because it is all speculative working from the ground up on a new company or plan to do a job nobody seems to be able to do or want to do at present.  Forget the past, look to the future by thinking anew today.</p> <p> </p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p>henry6,</p> <p>if you read between the lines, you´ll detect the pride those railroad men and women had in doing their duty. It was way more than just a job. Now transfer that to today´s Amtrak staff. How can you develop pride if you are constantly being told you  contribute to the national debt? </p> <p>Privatization may or may not be the answer. It is a question of what kind of rail service the nation needs now and in the future. When that question is answered, than you can start to think about how to finance it. IMHO, you need people with a vision to give the answer, not just a bunch of controllers (of which I am one by profession) who look at short term returns.</p>
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