New chief executive to take office April 15; Anderson to remain as advisor for remainder of year
https://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2020/03/report-atlas-airs-flynn-to-succeed-anderson-as-amtrak-ceo
Brian Schmidt, Editor, Classic Trains magazine
In 6 months, people on here will be bemoaning the good ole days when Anderson was in charge.
He must like trains. He's taking a 93% pay cut!!
Atlas Air? An air freight outfit? That doesn't augur well.
Containerized passengers?
And nobody seems to want to comment on the 'he's expected to stay five years' line...?
He-he-he, Southern Air Transport. I'll bet few here know the fuzzy background of that company.
BackshopIn 6 months, people on here will be bemoaning the good ole days when Anderson was in charge.
Since Anderson will be an 'Adviser' to the end of the year. It will take longer than 6 months, and despite how bad the new guy may be, no one will ever consider Anderson's tenure as 'good old days'.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Amtrak prepares to enter the age of passenger jet service.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saG-QQSiG4I
A fitting example!
Rebuilt cheap RDC, with sheet-steel 'styled' nose and F7 numberboards for windows, towed backward behind a Geep as the intermodal train thunders by.
Then fire up the obsolescent turbojets bought as surplus from retired equipment, and buck your way down the bolted-joint main in a huge cloud of black unburned fuel and road dust...
I remember once again the tagline in a National Lampoon article about the Metroliners, some years later: "Speeding America into the Fifties" -- "Railroading's answer to the DC-6." This was railroading's answer to the B-47, well into the era of the B-70 and A-12...
... and no, it wasn't meant for passengers of the repeat, paying kind.
Flintlock76 Atlas Air? An air freight outfit? That doesn't augur well. Containerized passengers?
To be fair, unlike Anderson, Flynn also has railroad experience; he was a senior executive for CSX.
Has the Board 'forced' Anderson to move on?
BaltACD Has the Board 'forced' Anderson to move on?
Why would they? I doubt foamers opinion of him matter to the board.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/02/nyregion/amtrak-ceo-william-flynn.html
"By all accounts, Mr. Anderson, who guided Delta through a bankruptcy proceeding, has been successful"
An "expensive model collector"
Most metrics would suggest Anderson did a pretty good job in a situation where so much is not within his power to change. There's a place for nostalgia seekers but that's not in a modern passenger rail system.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI6dsMeABpU
My feelings exactly.
I feel like lighting a firecracker here. Let's go for it!
Anderson was in a position answerable to Congressional budget constraints and oversight. He faced a public with attitudes that ranged from shutting the entire system down all the way to immediately criss-crossing the country with HSR.
What, specifically, did Anderson do wrong?
York1 John
So what is your opinion of the new chief, given you both worked at CSX?
n012944 BaltACD Has the Board 'forced' Anderson to move on? Why would they? I doubt foamers opinion of him matter to the board.
I don't think it's foamers, I think it's politicians bringing pressure. It might be something related to the charge-the-scooter-people-$25,000: the timing of this announcement seems to match.
Overmod n012944 BaltACD Has the Board 'forced' Anderson to move on? Why would they? I doubt foamers opinion of him matter to the board. I don't think it's foamers, I think it's politicians bringing pressure. It might be something related to the charge-the-scooter-people-$25,000: the timing of this announcement seems to match.
People with the resources to own and operate private railroad cars normally have very deep political ties and influence.
Or maybe it is because his three year contract is up this year.
n012944Or maybe it is because his three year contract is up this year.
Naaaah, too simple. Too obvious. All us conspiracy theorists and speculators can't have any fun if the obvious reasons were to apply.
Brian Schmidt New chief executive to take office April 15; Anderson to remain as advisor for remainder of year https://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2020/03/report-atlas-airs-flynn-to-succeed-anderson-as-amtrak-ceo
I worked with his father, brother, and uncle. He comes from good stock.
243129 Brian Schmidt New chief executive to take office April 15; Anderson to remain as advisor for remainder of year https://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2020/03/report-atlas-airs-flynn-to-succeed-anderson-as-amtrak-ceo I worked with his father, brother, and uncle. He comes from good stock.
Johnny
Deggesty 243129 Brian Schmidt New chief executive to take office April 15; Anderson to remain as advisor for remainder of year https://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2020/03/report-atlas-airs-flynn-to-succeed-anderson-as-amtrak-ceo I worked with his father, brother, and uncle. He comes from good stock. Is he a "chip off the old block?"
Is he a "chip off the old block?"
Official Amtrak statement:
https://media.amtrak.com/2020/03/amtrak-names-william-flynn-as-ceo-and-president/
Note the hints in his statement about likely initial priorities.
Joe, you have my interest and attention. Just what did his relatives do when you worked with them?
OvermodJoe, you have my interest and attention. Just what did his relatives do when you worked with them?
His father and I were firemen together on the Shoreline Division NY.NH.&H. , his father eventually becoming a road foreman, his uncle was an Amtrak engineer on the NEC (also with me) and his son, who sadly passed away at a young age, was a conductor for Amtrak on the NEC. All good railroad men.
243129 Overmod Joe, you have my interest and attention. Just what did his relatives do when you worked with them? His father and I were firemen together on the Shoreline Division NY.NH.&H. , his father eventually becoming a road foreman, his uncle was an Amtrak engineer on the NEC (also with me) and his son, who sadly passed away at a young age, was a conductor for Amtrak on the NEC. All good railroad men.
Overmod Joe, you have my interest and attention. Just what did his relatives do when you worked with them?
Would you say, "In like Flynn"?
charlie hebdo BaltACD Has the Board 'forced' Anderson to move on? So what is your opinion of the new chief, given you both worked at CSX?
I'll repeat the question
You usually have strong opinions about CSX and Amtrak. So what about Flynn?
Electroliner 1935Would you say, "In like Flynn"?
Yes, you could say that.
Check out Airline Pilot Central forum-Cargo=Southern and Atlas. I have my popcorn popping. He hates unions
Atlas is one of those last minute, low cost cargo carriers, just like Kalitta. They hire low-time pilots who want to fly big planes but normally can't get hired by the majors. That Amazon Prime jet that crashed into Galveston Bay last year was an Atlas plane.
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