Well, there three sides to every story, your side, my side and the truth. Here is a link to David Gunn's verison of the story about his firing.

http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?4,1035922

Lead, follow or get pushed out of the way.

That is what happened today to David Gunn, the CEO of Amtrak. He was relieved of his duties. The board felt he was not taking the company in the right direction. You can read and decide for yourself at :
http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=Amtrak/am2Copy/News_Release_Page&c=am2Copy&cid=1093554026306&ssid=180
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/09/AR2005110900643.html

David Gunn was pushed out of the way.

Well, if you are wondering why Clevelandtrains.net is running alittle slower, it is due to a server upgrade. I am currently upgrading the webserver from to Windows 2000 Server to Windows 2003 server. My server that is being rebuilt is a Compaq Dl360 G2 running dual P3 1400 chips with 1284 of ram with Windows 2k3 server. I had to transfer files over to a HP DC7100 workstation runing a P4 3.0 hyper threading with 512 of ram server. This temp server is not all that great of a performer. I think it is due to everything being on a single hard drive. It is a newer SATA drive, 40 gigs.

So hopefully, I will have the whole site back over at on my true server Monday or Tuesday. Once the site is back there, the performace should improve greatly. If you are thinking about making a workstation a heavy duty server, forgetaboutit.

I am thinking about adding some features to the site. More to come on that soon.

NateF40Amtrak

Well, I posted over at Railroadforums and Trainorders.
Here are links to both post.

http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,1022565
http://www.railroadforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9873

I had not clue that it was snowing up there in MRL country. It will only be a matter of time before the snow starts here in Cleveland, Ohio. We only have two season, construction and winter. Go figure.

October has been a slow month tracking them MRL 70aces. I have found a few pictures of them in service.

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=122481
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=121858
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=121860

I will start a post over at Trainorders and Railroadforums to find some information out about how these guys are holding up.