by Gilbert B Norman
The Wall Street Journal has printed an article and circulated today titled "A Flight Plan For Amtrak":
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..The signs are aimed at the thousands of train passengers who rumble each day through North Philadelphia—two banners 14 feet high by 26 feet wide, mounted outside an old package-sorting facility built in the heyday of the Pennsylvania Railroad.It is "the usual litany" to me regarding the LD's, PV's. the advocacy groups. It hsrdly breaks new ground around here, but to The Journal's readership base less informed of Amtrak affairs, it could "break new ground".
“SAVE AMTRAK,” one says. The other: “FIRE ANDERSON.”
No one has stirred up the people who feel deeply about the national passenger railroad—long-haul train fanatics, safety regulators, union employees, private railcar owners—quite like Richard Anderson, the former Delta Air Lines Inc. boss who took over as Amtrak’s chief executive in 2017.