ROME, N.Y. — Joseph H. Boardman, Amtrak’s second-longest-serving president and CEO, has died. Boardman, 70, suffered a stroke while vacationing with his wife and family in Florida on March 5 and passed away early this morning, Amtrak anno…
http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2019/03/07-joe-boardman-former-amtrak-president-dies
From Mike: Very Nice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RgT6ra3YYk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O7_ysu2Qfw&t=7m30s
Excerpt from 2010 TQ interview
TQ: How did you run the ranks to become FRA’s 11th Administrator?
Boardman: The way I started, I was a bus driver for the campus bus system during my college years at Cornell University to try to help pay for my education. I lived across the street from the bus company. I was raised on a dairy farm so to me work was you worked 365, 7 days a week, 24 hours – not 24 hours obviously, but you worked all the time. That’s your way of life. Well, I found in transportation a kindred spirit, because in transportation we work all the time. I think I worked more as a bus driver than I did studying in college. When I finished college, and I had already been in the Air Force for four years, there was an opportunity to run a small transit system in my hometown of Rome, New York. While I was there, I picked up the responsibility to run the parking authority, the downtown redevelopment, and then the Utica Transit Authority, which was a neighboring system.
Railfan, Supporter and Amtrak Champion
https://barryfuneralhome.com/book-of-memories/3769924/Boardman-Joseph/index.php