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Supremes to Hear Amtrak Timekeeping

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Posted by oltmannd on Thursday, July 31, 2014 1:13 PM

Paul Milenkovic

The Supremes?

Doesn't the song Stop in the Name of Love pretty much describe our affection for trains and our anxiety that the trains will be taken away from us?

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/supremes/stopinthenameoflove.html

 

Or maybe it describes Amtrak being abandoned in its affections by the freight railroads?

 

(lead) Leaving me alone and hurt

(chorus) (think it over)

(lead)  Haven't I been good to you?

(chorus) (think it over)

(lead) Haven't I been sweet to you?

Two things:

I laughed! (and people looked at me funny)

The song is stuck in my head. (at least it pushed out a Sound of Music song that was previously stuck.)

-Don (Random stuff, mostly about trains - what else? http://blerfblog.blogspot.com/

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Posted by Paul Milenkovic on Thursday, July 31, 2014 11:20 AM

The Supremes?

Doesn't the song Stop in the Name of Love pretty much describe our affection for trains and our anxiety that the trains will be taken away from us?

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/supremes/stopinthenameoflove.html

 

Or maybe it describes Amtrak being abandoned in its affections by the freight railroads?

 

(lead) Leaving me alone and hurt

(chorus) (think it over)

(lead)  Haven't I been good to you?

(chorus) (think it over)

(lead) Haven't I been sweet to you?

If GM "killed the electric car", what am I doing standing next to an EV-1, a half a block from the WSOR tracks?

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Supremes to Hear Amtrak Timekeeping
Posted by Dakguy201 on Thursday, July 31, 2014 9:47 AM

The Supreme Court agreed to take a case concerning Amtrak's ability to participate in setting  timekeeping standards for its trains over freight railroad's facilities.  Esssentially, the nub of the case is the legal definition of Amtrak as a private, profit making, institution.  

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