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Posted by italianstallion on Thu Apr 16 23:22:57 2015 Why is this woman important to the rail industry?
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Thu Apr 16 23:33:42 2015, in response to Train Babe, posted by italianstallion on Thu Apr 16 23:22:57 2015. I cheated, so I won't answer. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Apr 16 23:36:53 2015, in response to Train Babe, posted by italianstallion on Thu Apr 16 23:22:57 2015. Good question. That's Sarah Feinberg, Facebook's official minister of corporate bullshit. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Apr 16 23:38:06 2015, in response to Re: Train Babe, posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Apr 16 23:36:53 2015. Oh. I get it. She got hired up by DOT as chief of staff. Well, she writes some really GREAT bullshit. :) |
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Posted by italianstallion on Thu Apr 16 23:40:50 2015, in response to Re: Train Babe, posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Apr 16 23:38:06 2015. No, you're out of date. She's got a railroadin' gig now. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Fri Apr 17 00:13:00 2015, in response to Re: Train Babe, posted by italianstallion on Thu Apr 16 23:40:50 2015. Well THAT was fast. :)Well, she's queen of bullshit so I guess whoever snapped her up will get their money's worth. Only downside is she always trips herself up to the chagrin of her masters. I'd better make some popcorn. Heh. |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Fri Apr 17 01:56:27 2015, in response to Train Babe, posted by italianstallion on Thu Apr 16 23:22:57 2015. She doesn't look very babe-looking on here. |
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Posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Fri Apr 17 06:27:06 2015, in response to Train Babe, posted by italianstallion on Thu Apr 16 23:22:57 2015. She's now the |
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Posted by Dave on Fri Apr 17 07:19:08 2015, in response to Re: Train Babe, posted by Olog-hai on Fri Apr 17 01:56:27 2015. Her background obviously makes her qualified for the job...NOT! |
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Posted by R30A on Fri Apr 17 07:34:50 2015, in response to Re: Train Babe, posted by Dave on Fri Apr 17 07:19:08 2015. It makes her about as qualified as one can be. |
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Posted by Dan on Fri Apr 17 09:34:15 2015, in response to Re: Train Babe, posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Apr 16 23:36:53 2015. Love the way you described her title. |
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Posted by WillD on Fri Apr 17 17:03:52 2015, in response to Re: Train Babe, posted by R30A on Fri Apr 17 07:34:50 2015. But, but she was nominated by Obama, so she MUST be unqualified. So it goes with the Subchat ODS crew.Hell, Boardman was in theory a great selection, but upon taking office Mr. Szabo reported the FRA was incapable of managing the allocation of funds, such was its regulatory capture Mr. Boardman left them with. Worse, Boardman has gone on to run Amtrak into the ground, capitulating meekly on the subject of food service expenditures when just a few years ago Gunn defended them as loss leaders. |
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Posted by R30A on Fri Apr 17 22:13:13 2015, in response to Re: Train Babe, posted by WillD on Fri Apr 17 17:03:52 2015. I don't think that Boardman has done badly at Amtrak at all. There seems to be an echo chamber of reports about how things are getting worse when all of my experience seems to be nothing but improvements, with common sense cuts which aren't really cuts at all. |
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Posted by WillD on Fri Apr 17 22:35:11 2015, in response to Re: Train Babe, posted by R30A on Fri Apr 17 22:13:13 2015. IMHO the overwhelming theme of objections to Mr. Boardman's tenure is one of being penny wise with onboard services and pound foolish with operating practices. There are a few cases where Amtrak appears to have been able to save more money through changes to their operations than they've saved by eliminating onboard services, but opted not to implement it for one reason or another. |
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Posted by R30A on Fri Apr 17 23:06:29 2015, in response to Re: Train Babe, posted by WillD on Fri Apr 17 22:35:11 2015. Well, my point really is- They actually did not eliminate on board services to any major extent. I don't think many riders at all cared about flowers in the dining car, nor about whether the plates would occasionally be china. |
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Posted by Elkeeper on Fri Apr 17 23:18:19 2015, in response to Train Babe, posted by italianstallion on Thu Apr 16 23:22:57 2015. She's LuchAAA's blind date? |
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Posted by Jackson Park B Train on Sat Apr 18 01:56:21 2015, in response to Re: Train Babe, posted by R30A on Fri Apr 17 23:06:29 2015. China isn't the issue in my mind. The crappy low end franchise like food and fewer choices are my gripes For dinner I default to the steak because everything else shouts "mystery food in sauce". The days of a decent chef's salad are long gone. On a single night out trip, it is manageble, for the Western trains the same boring choices (minus whatever has run out) get old. Frankly, Trader Joe's could make a mint sending a truck to trackside at selected stops hawking their prefab salads. On a more local basis, we could return to the system Southern Railway employed for trains without diners. The conductors got a count of interested passengers and telegraphed ahead. At the appointed time the caterer would board distributing freshly made food in boxes. I remember a good fried chicken on the slow mail train from Atlanta to DC. |
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Posted by Joe V on Sat Apr 18 07:06:07 2015, in response to Re: Train Babe, posted by R30A on Fri Apr 17 23:06:29 2015. Boardman is Roger Lewis II.The Silver Star gets NOTHING but a snack car as of Jul 1. Diner meals elsewhere have deteriorated, are over-priced for what they are, and crews make up their own rules as to when they open and close. His operations outside the NEC are at best spotty with inconsistent OBS performance, bad equipment maintenance, written up equipment not corrected at terminals, delay advisories of host railrods, like BNSF and NS, put up months after the fact. |
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Posted by Jackson Park B Train on Sat Apr 18 12:55:03 2015, in response to Re: Train Babe, posted by Joe V on Sat Apr 18 07:06:07 2015. let us not forget his private car junkets. Real execs ride the regular service to experience what the customer gets. And sometimes his private train (not just the cute cars on a regular run) gets 2 engines because as any Amtrak watcher knows, maintenance is so bad that a single engine might strand Mr. Boardman as it has fare paying riders. |
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Posted by Joe V on Sat Apr 18 13:46:34 2015, in response to Re: Train Babe, posted by Jackson Park B Train on Sat Apr 18 12:55:03 2015. Last spring during the NS meltdown, which Amtrak neglected to post as a travel advisory until mid-summer, Boardman got off the office car from an 8 - 10 hour late Lake Shore Ltd at South Bend, and a Black Car took him the rest of the way to a business meeting in Chicago.Claytor would have sweated it out in one of the Viewliners and been cussing out NS headquarters from a cellphone on the the train (and would have "borrowed" someone else's if he didn't have one. |
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Posted by Jackson Park B Train on Sat Apr 18 13:53:07 2015, in response to Re: Train Babe, posted by Joe V on Sat Apr 18 13:46:34 2015. precisely. The concept of the "rulers" or "gods" goinmg semi or completely incognito among the ruled is ancient. |
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Posted by R2Chinatown on Sat Apr 18 14:30:36 2015, in response to Train Babe, posted by italianstallion on Thu Apr 16 23:22:57 2015. She looks like Meredith Marokovits little sister.  |
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