neroden
Engineer
Fellow named TAW on trainorders has a very interesting personal story from his time at BNSF, which may help explain what's causing most of the class Is to routinely delay Amtrak. It seems to be a cultural issue which runs quite deep. They *could* run Amtrak on time, but that would require a more disciplined and competent dispatching operation than they typically have....
http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?4,4019935
http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?4,4019935