I've been learning a lot out there during this sabbatical on the rails. I agree that the CS seems to have more than its fair share of "interesting" characters. One common denominator seems to be overindulgence in alcohol and the inability to handle it. Recalling the last three ruckuses occurring on trains I've been aboard, all of them involved boozed up passengers acting like a**holes. I do appreciate "railroad justice" where zero-tolerance conductors promptly remove these knuckleheads, but it goes without saying that they should have known better than to become belligerent in the first place. Conductors shouldn't have to babysit imbibers!
And furthermore it arrived PDX "only" 5 hrs, 18 minutes late. So even the 6-hour figure, regardless of the cause, is inaccurate. I'd say the headline is not simply misleading, it is factually incorrect. Never mind the facts, TV stations like to amp up the drama.
