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Subject: Re: Rail tour of the US Posted on: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 19:03:53 +0000 (UTC)

> Twice, they just stopped the train in the middle of
> nowhere for 1-3 hours ... As far as I could tell, all of
> the delays were due to mismanagement and bad
> choices made by the railroad, and none were due to
> factors outside their control such as track outages or
> mechanical failures.

A friend of mine who is a retired Amtrack employee says
that these delays are often to wait for a freight train miles
ahead to clear the tracks. Freight gets priority since that's
where most of the profits come from.

Jim