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?
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.
Would you say, "In like Flynn"?
OvermodJoe, you have my interest and attention. Just what did his relatives do when you worked with them?
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?
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?"
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.
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
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?"
Johnny
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.
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.
n012944 BaltACD Has the Board 'forced' Anderson to move on? Why would they? I doubt foamers opinion of him matter to the board.
BaltACD Has the Board 'forced' Anderson to move on?
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.
Or maybe it is because his three year contract is up this year.
An "expensive model collector"
People with the resources to own and operate private railroad cars normally have very deep political ties and influence.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
So what is your opinion of the new chief, given you both worked at CSX?
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI6dsMeABpU
My feelings exactly.
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.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"
Flintlock76 Atlas Air? An air freight outfit? That doesn't augur well. Containerized passengers?
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.
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.
Amtrak prepares to enter the age of passenger jet service.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saG-QQSiG4I
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'.
He-he-he, Southern Air Transport. I'll bet few here know the fuzzy background of that company.
And nobody seems to want to comment on the 'he's expected to stay five years' line...?
He must like trains. He's taking a 93% pay cut!!
In 6 months, people on here will be bemoaning the good ole days when Anderson was in charge.
Brian Schmidt, Editor, Classic Trains magazine
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