Washington Post "Amtrak still on Track at 50!"

[TraneMan]

I was interviewed for the Washington Post last Monday. Here's the story! A great write up!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...940d64-a9fd-11eb-bca5-048b2759a489_story.html

 

[Qapla]

Nice article

 

[Anderson]

Given recent history, the title (at least) makes me think the author is deluded.

 

[JontyMort]

Given recent history, the title (at least) makes me think the author is deluded.

But actually the link between the headline and the article is somewhat tenuous. The article pays homage to train travel in general, less to Amtrak.

 

[jruff001]

Wonderful article, TraneMan!

 

[jruff001]

Given recent history, the title (at least) makes me think the author is deluded.

Rude.

 

[Anderson]

Rude.

But not wrong.

(I'm sorry, the idea that Amtrak is "still on track" after the last year makes me cringe. In particular, I'm hearing that we're likely to not get a batch of state trains back anytime soon, there was the horrible 3x/week mess this past year which was in turn executed in a way that seems closer to "intentionally malicious" than "utterly incompetent", and predating that was pulling diner service on the eastern LD trains [which I might have cut some slack if it had been during the pandemic...but no, it was pre-pandemic].)

 

[jis]

Given recent history, the title (at least) makes me think the author is deluded.

Au contraire, the title I think is very apropos. Considering that the original perpetrators of Amtrak had in their mind an outfit that would fade away into nothing within five years, the fact that it is still "on track" 50 years later and even if in a bit tattered shape, still more or less a viable mode of transportation except perhaps for the most discerning rail transport connoisseurs, makes the title quite appropriate.

 

[Ryan]

"On track" and "doing what a random person on the internet thinks they should be doing" are two very different things.