Frank Wilner: Amtrak denied precision scheduling

By Frank N. Wilner, Capitol Hill Contributing Editor, Railway Age Magazine; September 4, 2018

Watching Washington, September 2018: If two congressional directives are not aptly labeled “Cheech and Chong Provisions,” why is their sum “420” and their consequence a seeming hallucinatory decade-long cavort through the federal court system whose clashing opinions have pinged and ponged as if a Super Mario arcade game?

Welcome to an interminable legal donnybrook—a hereditary emolument for involved attorneys—featuring Amtrak and freight railroads over whose privately owned track Amtrak trains operate with diminutive hint of scheduled precision.

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