AMTRAK finally bent to the will of FRA. BLE-T made the usual bleats to management to appease the dues paying rank and file. Methinks the Class 1's will follow suit with retrofits and new powerplant purchases. A large majority of commuter and rapid transit's are ordering their new trainsets with voice recorders, GPS, data boxes (Similar to aviation black boxes) inward facing cameras and cellphone detection systems. I wish the entire rail based industry would consolidate their unions and vote me in as the national president and the very first thing I would do is call a strike on all the railroads except the high density rapid transit systems because a high percentage of their riders don't have a viable alternate means to go to work. Tops 3 weeks and the high dollar intercity crowd and the spoon-fed commuter crowd would demand that heads roll and after a massive management resume updating feeding frenzy all would be right with the railroads again. All aboard.
UNION POWER: BLE not BLE-T. Prosper with us or perish without us.