Re: The UP vs. BNSF Management Style
Author: Coleman Randall
Date: 02-06-2007 - 10:57
Bravo!!! Your point is excellently put and even I overlooked the fact that Amtrak was a paying customer of the railroads and shouldn't be "siding riden" and delayed as such by the UP because of that reason as well. I have heard that Amtrak actually has a signed agreement with the BNSF that they are to pay Amtrak a penalty for willful delays on their rail lines but the UP has declined to sign such an agreement UP's apparent message to the Amtrak passengers about on time performance is the "heck with you".
Just look at the frustration of the Amtrak staff at the Davis Amtrak Station with all that habitual lateness of Amtrak Trains on the Cal-P line that further empahsizes the point.