A recent exchange on the MTRA newsgroup: "Because of editorial liberties taken with El Simon's Railpace Amtrak news column, Mr. Simon has left the magazine. The November issue is the last one in which Mr. Simon's column will appear. Carl Perlman is temporarily taking over the Amtrak news gathering duties. a reply to that: "Editorial liberties"? I'd guess that some things were put into El's column by those he worked for that he didn't write, and probably didn't agree with." and the response: "That is exactly what happened. As I wrote in response to some news items quoted by Bob Scheurle several weeks ago, Mr. Simon did not say the "L" in HHL stood for "lousy, according to an Amtrak employee." Mr. Simon also did not mention the comment from an "Amtrak official" along the lines of "not starting Acela Express service now will save money." ------------------------------------------------------------ Visit the erielack photopage at http://el-list.railfan.net ------------------------------
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