Amtrak names new chief executive

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Hat tip, Ethan Klapper: https://twitter.com/ethanklapper

He retweeted this:

Amtrak welcomes new CEO Richard Anderson. http://bit.ly/2tbTiNv

Link to tweet

Amtrak names new chief executive
By Lori Aratani June 26 at 1:35 PM

Amtrak has named Richard Anderson, the former chief executive of Delta and Northwest airlines, as its new president and CEO.

The announcement comes less than a year into the tenure Charles W. “Wick” Moorman, who took over as the passenger railroad’s chief executive in September 2016. In a recent meeting with The Washington Post’s editorial board, Moorman had indicated that his role would be to serve as a “transitional CEO,” working to reorganize and streamline Amtrak’s operations before turning it over to new leadership.

{Amtrak named Charles W. “Wick" Moorman as its new President and CEO}

Anderson will begin his new job July 12 — just a few days after Amtrak launches an ambitious rebuilding program at New York’s Pennsylvania Station. As part of the transition, he and Moorman will serve as co-CEO’s through Dec. 31, 2017, officials said.
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Lori Aratani writes about how people live, work and play in the D.C. region for The Post’s Transportation and Development team. Follow @loriara

ETA, 2:55: Passenger Trains > New Amtrak CEO

[Freethinker65]

1. His new job is to kill Amtrak...privatize the $$$ making routes, let the others die off

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Oh Boy.

This Slug will set Amtrak up to be given to Phil Anschutz who owns Union Pacific Railroad. This Anschutz has been waiting years for this. One of the people who is stopping Californians from getting high speed rail service both between LA and SF as well as LA to Vegas.

BTW,Anderson did a real trip on the folks at NWA as well as Delta. Kiss this thing good bye.


Your Amtrak Trip today will be sponsored by your friends at Comcast.

[question everything]

3. Indeed. Got NWA in bankruptcy to squeeze concessions

from pilots and flight attendants. And then "got out" of bankruptcy with his millions and then "merged" it with Delta while many at MSP lost jobs.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Was there when this went down.

Checky and Wilson set this NWA deal up to fail from the get go. Close acquaintance was one of the B.A.'s for the Stew's. Slow motion train wreck right out of the gate. When Anderson came on board,thinking people knew what the game was and it did play out.

BTW,Anshutz has been able to accumulate Dozens of Passenger Coaches for his Privatized operations. There are stored in California and some in South Eastern Colorado. Rail Fans have been eye balling these for years.

[Hieronymus]

5. AMTRAK needs o be scrapped and

replaced with high speed. You couldn't get me on an AMTRAK train.
I loved trains as a boy and still love the ones in Europe.