Going to talk about CSX reinvesting there profits into Tracks and Fixing RailCars
Pony up the $1.4 Billion that CSX is currently investing in that this year.
How about an agreement to run Amtrak on time? What will it take to have commuter rail in the future in CSX cities like Nashville?? Will CSX accept public money to make this happen??
The railroads wnat public money but they dont want to give anything in retern…
In New York we gave them a 3 year tax abatenment and we got Amtrak Trains 11 hours late and 5 major wrecks in 12 months…
Once we cut them a check for 500,000,000 whose job is it to make sure that they spend teh money on what they are supposed to?
That check disappears in the hard dry ground from past due bills.
Well…We need to talk about keeping the trains on the tracks and the aging infrastructure of the the US rail system…Most bridges have 1910 markings on them around here.
The Railroad cars are reaching there 40 year life span…
Railroad Flat wheels have to have 4 inch flat spots before going out of service…
CSX has the money after all they incresed there dividend and and got a tax break from NY state
and yes Amtrak is later then normal
Hmmm … 4 inch flat spots huh ??
Yes, by ALL MEANS, go to a stockholders meeting and argue “railfan” issues for your entire 3 minutes, and then tell us how it goes.
TELL THEM HOW WRONG IT WAS FOR THEM TO RETIRE STEAM AND STOP MAINTAINING THE POSITION OF FIREMEN, while you are at it…** snicker chortle**.
There is a wheel shop down there in Pine Bluff. Send those flat wheels there. There is a sea of fresh wheels ready to go.