Amtrak doesn't wait. They are given top priority. The only thing keeping them from being on time is their own folly or things common and unavoidable for all rail traffic (broken rails, snow, washouts, derailments, other accidents, etc.)

Amtrak is given highest priority now, followed by intermodal (UPS, FedEX and ship containers), followed by all other freight. Yes, I work with the railroad. All the livelong day.

There are some facts to consider here. Right now, freight trains are being inconvenienced because Amtrak trains are given TOP priority where they run on freight rails. The freight trains are put on sidings sometimes for hours for fear that Amtrak will be held up at all by freight traffic. Any train cannot run at high speed on existing freight rails because the best of them usually top out at 75 MPH while many in service, even those used all the time, might have slow orders for 40, 25 or even 10 MPH. Broken rails and derailments are common, especially in cold weather. Section crews have plenty to keep them busy just keeping the existing lines and spurs in service for freight use. Carriers bow to Amtrak wishes now, and it costs them dearly.

In Soviet Russia, Czechs don't take you!

Or something.

I'll stop now.

All right, bachelor.

This makes it a batchelor iPad.

I don't take Czechs.

If you study the Great Depression, the two main things done to make it worse and longer were to raise taxes on higher-income people and raise tariffs on foreign goods. While either of those things could reasonably be done under other circumstances, at the time they killed the kind of economic activity the country needed.

What's more natural than producing AC in DC?

They should have installed wind towers instead, with all the hot air originating in DC!

Repeat this for every generation of panels referencing the previous generation, and we all know efficient solar panels will be here Very Soon Now.

The 6 part. I was never good at math.

Extra bonus points for the 'V' reference!

"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people".

May you find a mouse head in your cole slaw.

Thanks, I wondered why when people talk about Lost I think of 'number two'. Nyuk nyuk.