“We were told it was an engineer who had been over his allotment of hours, and they’re going to be bringing in another engineer very quickly and will be back on the route in no time,” he said. “That never happened.”
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Unfreakingbelievable.....SMH....
I have had that happen with Amtrak and planes.
At an airport or a train stop, that is not normally a problem, outside of the added time.
They're actually pretending they didn't know the engineer was approaching their limit. Like we haven't run trains for more than a century.
The jax tv video clearly shows a TOW engine hooked up to the “new” modernized livery, lead Amtrak engine, which was clearly NOT working. That is why, when the diesel/electric power engine quit (NOT due, assuredly to an engineer who was overtime limits, btw), all the electrical systems in the passenger cars and all other cars— shut down. No a/c, no water pressure- even the hydraulic/electric doors between cars would not work to say, stay open and let air flow in and out of individual cars.
We should put an enquiry in to Hunter Biden who used to have a seat on Amtrak’s BOD (no kidding) either before or concurrent to his Burisma Ukraine oil company BOD job. Daddy Bags Joey Biden got him the Amtrak job- thanks to his constant travel on his own “car” so to say— between Wilmington, DE and Washington DC. This breakdown is a MIRROR of the breakdown in Joey Bags Biden and his criminal family and son. To be blunt, it’s diagnostic the grift within Amtrak constantly seeking more funds to prop itself up- and pissing is all away on kickback contracts. All to maintain the NE corridor and Acela for the “elite” morons who make us all pay so they can travel— much more on a ratio than today’s aviation subsidies do for airlines.
Secondly- the trains in Germany carting people away in cattle cars to labor/death... come to mind. God Bless the Boy Scouts who helped people on board. So much for the romance of trains on Amtrak.
Y’all may not know this but Warren Buffett owns Burlington Northern and all of its tracks. Amtrak has to pay road fees to Burlington Northern on all of their tracks Amtrak uses. So, aside from making millions off of forced oil tank cars (vs. the Biden shut down pipeline) shipping crude to Houston, Buffett the genius also gets a large piece of Amtrak subsidized train routes/fares— into his pocket, renting his rail lines. CSX does the same thing for nearly all of the Southern US Amtrak routes (including this one all the way from DC to Miami).
Ain’t socialism fun. The other article on 1990 Soviet grocery stores goes along well with this “climate saving” bullcrap of trains. Check the fares as they are now, then check the Unions that Joey demento loves- the “working” people. Spit.