When talking to the news media about railroads, you get one chance to get it right

Opinion By Doug Riddell, Railway Age Magazine; June 19, 2018

On June 8, the Associated Press reported that Virginia authorities had indicted a garbage truck driver on charges of involuntary manslaughter and driving under the influence, after he allegedly drove into the path of an Amtrak charter train carrying Republican members of Congress, near Charlottesville.

Unfortunately, the incident itself had occurred on Jan. 31—five months earlier.

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