Pete,
Bob Campbell told me, today, that No.6 arrived in Chicago after 5 AM
this morning!
Bill Barber
On Jan 17, 2007, at 1:28 PM, CBQ@yahoogroups.com wrote:
> Amtrak Gets another one
>
> Posted by: "Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com" Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com
>
> Tue Jan 16, 2007 12:22 pm (PST)
>
> No. 6, about noon today hit a pickup truck in southwest Lincoln.
> This would
> make the train about 8 hours late. The pickup driver was fatally
> injured
> according to radio reports. I don't know how long No. 6 was
> delayed, but he
> was gone when I passed the scene around 1:00pm
>
> I was reminded of a comment made by W.J. Dixon former president of
> the Rock
> Island...one of the least "railroadlike" presidents ever to hold that
> position...
>
> Bill Hoenig, former RI Chief Operating Officer told me that on one
> occasion
> he reported that a "somewhat late" Rock Island train had hit a
> vehicle at a
> road crossing...Dixon's insightful comment was..."Well, if you
> would have run
> that train on time this wouldn't have happened.
>
> Can't beat that for irrefutable logic.
>
> Pete
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