So sometimes it's not great knowing things about trains..

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I was in NYC for work this past week. I wasn;t about to drive there, 3 hours minimum plus trying to drive in Manhattan plus parking costs - nope, I took the train. Awesome. Until it wasn’t - we had an underpredicted snow storm thursday that’s cuased all trains west out of Philadelphia to be canceled. I spent all of Thursday night sitting in the train station - got there about 8:30 from New York, finally got to leave at 7:30 this morning. Trees down on the line and wire down (this is all electrified territory, from the time the PRR electrified these lines way back when). Anyway, the two ladies in the seat behind me were complainign about how slow we were going from 30th Street to paoli (this being where the problems were). Well, considering we were the first train out after some serious obstructiooons were cleared and the catenary repaired, you cna darn well bet we were under slow orders throught his section. Once past Paoli, we were back to normal track speed.

Plus, i was interviewed on two different local TV stations, the ABC and NBC affliates in Philly. Now I’m famous…

–Randy

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Without a good agent, they’ll eat you alive, dude.

Ed

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Are we able to view clips of the interviews outside of Philly, Randy? Or, are you still under the auspices of the witness protection program?

Tom

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So, Randy, before that were you infamous? Or, can you be famous and still infamous?

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They shoould be available on the stations’ web sites.

Here’s the one

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Tree-Down-Amtrak-SEPTA_Philadelphia-500671631.html

I’m at 1:05 (there’s an autoplay ad before the story)

And here’s the other:

https://6abc.com/traffic/commuters-deal-with-mass-transit-issues-due-to-wintry-weather/4697566/

About 1:03 on this one (also has an autoplay ad before the story)

–Randy

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Randy,

I’m gonna guess that “Man From Reading” will be the most watched video clip this weekend by MR regulars…

Tom

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At least you did not look and sound a fool.

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I was on the local news about ten years ago, and I completely flubbed up what I was trying to say.

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-Kevin

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I wasn’t able to view these. I think someone has set the parental controls to prevent viewing of anything that has a PG rating or worse.

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Can’t imagine it wouldn’t be rated PG or less. And others have seen it, who are not from the local area, so it’s not restricted by region.

–Randy