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Amtrak cancels all long-distance trains as freight rail strike looms
- bombcar 4y agoMissing a chance for a “possession is 9/10ths of the law” grab and taking the routes as their own.
- thghtihadanacct 4y agoI think this is a great angle but I am guessing there will probably be trains left on single tracks.
- bombcar 4y agoI’m not exactly sure what happens at shutdown - to the active trains stop immediately or do the crews drive them to somewhere comfortable first?
- thghtihadanacct 4y agoWell, if youre walking off the job are you gonna put the carts away first?
- bombcar 4y agoDepends, if the carts are traveling at sixty miles per hour and weigh 400,000 tons and I’m currently in the ass end of nowhere, I might be inclined to wait until they are at least near some sort of habitation. Of course you could cut out early at the last reasonable stop but then you’re striking early. When pilots strike I doubt they let the planes drop out of the sky.
- thghtihadanacct 4y agoIts freight workers that are striking not Amtrak. Im sure the strikers will stop the freight train at least before they get off ... It just might be on a single track which is most track just before you get into town
- bombcar 4y agoThat’s what I’m wondering - where exactly they’ll stop it (some rails can be hours from anywhere).
- scottshea 4y agoI am curious how long the strike will actually last. The President has the authority to order them back to work
- thghtihadanacct 4y agoWhat if they suddenly got covid?
- homieg33 4y agoReminds me of the flight traffic controller strike under Reagan. Can the same thing happen here? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Air_Traffic_Controllers_Organization_(1968)#August_1981_strike https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Air_Traffic_Con...
- midoridensha 4y agoThis should be a good thing for Amtrak: instead of its passenger trains having to stop and wait for higher-priority freight trains (!) to go by, they get unimpeded use of the tracks. What's the problem?
- yababa_y 4y agoLack of track maintenance / monitoring is my guess.
- LargoLasskhyfv 4y agoMaybe intentionally stopped freight trains blocking the tracks? Or dispatchers striking too? All signals RED!