Amtrak David Gunn Last Day at Amtrak is Nov.1

David Gunn will be returning to retirement Nov.1 of this year. The Board has a sucessor in mind but is holding off till after the elections to make the Annoncement. [^][:)][8D]

I wonder what changes the new president will have in mind, they got a semi-good thing going and don’t need it to be screwed up again…

…It’s anyone’s guess now…I’m guessing it’s downhill from here…Maybe disassembled into regional units…or who knows, complete phase out. This is what the present administration wants. So I suppose it depends on where the new fellow is coming from. I don’t blame Gunn for leaving…No money to run the system with. I think he gave plenty of warning…something had to change.

Gill Mallory is take over in Nov or early Dec. I heard he is great Guy.[:)]

Just curious. What was the source of your information? Are you on the Amtrak Board of Directors or do you have a good inside connection?

I haven’t seen any news on this and as yet there is no press release on the Amtrak site.

After Nov.2nd John Kerry will be looking for work. Maybe Amtrak will hire him.
(Hide in bunker,wait until shooting stops[;)]).

[#ditto] Trains News Wire did not mention this. Must have missed the cutoff.

He could become their president, then rehire that conductor that was fired due to their comment for their train being held up.

That stinks. Amtrak is toast!

Naw, he’ll still be a senator from the People’s Republic of Massachusetts.

Hhe’s done a lot for Amtrak and taken very unpopular stands among the halls of Congress. The next in line has plenty of work cut out to keep it all together.

What the heck is with Amtrak? Which genious are they coming up with who thinks they can do better than Gunn? He did a good job with the TTC in Toronto, I would think that he would be a vital component to the board of directors and so would try to do everything to keep him on. Boy am I easily fooled on this issue huh…

Just remember, Congress designed Amtrak to fail and Bush intends to see that Congress is successful.

Let us all hope you are right BaltACD! No body has had the gusts to kill the beast yet.

Mac

I just hope and pray you are wrong.

Dave,

Why?

Mac

Bush?

SO, let me get this perfectly straight… I get to laugh at you when he is elected right?

…That is a real possibility as it stands this Friday morning…I believe not too many experts can say with any authority who is going to win. {The Presidency}.
On the matter of finding someone who can master the reins at Amtrak taking over from Mr. Gunn…I don’t think it’s a matter of finding someone who can “do better than Gunn”, I believe we better hope someone can run it at all…If it is true Mr. Gunn has resigned, then it’s a matter of necessity. It seems to me it’s still in the same sinking boat…If the money requested by Mr. Gunn is not available…Amtrak is now in deep, maybe unsolvable problems. Is it time to start over…{Seems politically impossible}, and if it shuts down we’ll hear the whails from the NEC clear out here in Indiana.

…Wouldn’t it be nice, if we’re really going to send another 75 billion to Iraq, one of the oil richest countries in the world…after the first of the year…that we could maybe use 1.8 billion of that as Mr. Gunn requisted, to run our passenger rail system in this country…Just a little something for us once.