Trains Can Be Late.  But So What?
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Trains Can Be Late. But So What?

When you travel by train, stuff happens. On one of my trips, a dining car steward on VIA Rail’s trans-continental train put it rather succinctly: “If you work for the railroad,” he said, ”you gotta be flexible.”   Amtrak’s long-distance trains often run late. That’s because they operate on track owned by the freight railroads,…