YouTube video with major criticism for US railroads

[Trogdor]

Saw this video on YouTube today, basically completely roasting US railroads, PSR, and the poor state of operational reliability (and quality of life for railroad workers).

 

[GDRRiley]

Yes its a good roast by Allan who rightfully does this quite often.
Class 1 are a mess and deserve to get tossed under the train.

 

[bonzoesc]

Alan's friend Justin Roczniak got his opinion published in the NY Times this morning: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/09/opinion/business-economics/freight-train-mismanagement.html

 

[tricia]

Mismanagement and ‘Monster Trains’ Have Wrecked American Rail NY TImes 10/9/22

Opinion piece by Justin Roczniak focusing on "a deliberate, half-century-long conversion of the nation’s rail system from a network that could deliver many kinds of goods to market (while also hosting hundreds of passenger train lines), to a fleet of land barges that are good for coal and containers — not much else."

Not directly about Amtrak, but very much about how the tracks most of Amtrak runs on have been (mis)managed in recent decades.

 

[Qapla]

Alan's friend Justin Roczniak got his opinion published in the NY Times this morning: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/09/opinion/business-economics/freight-train-mismanagement.html

Seems to be behind a paywall so can't read it - do you have a link that can be accessed without the paywall?

 

[joelkfla]

Seems to be behind a paywall so can't read it - do you have a link that can be accessed without the paywall?

Here: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/09/...ca0RxiZg6IKQTpJwJRk-egd6UIjQog&smid=share-url

 

[Qapla]

Thanks - I was able to access that link.

Interesting perspective of railroading ...