• Clay_pidgin
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    165 hours ago

    That’s because Amtrak only owns their own rails in the NEC (North East Corridor) Boston-NYC-Philly-DC. Everywhere else they are riding on privately owned freight railroad tracks, and the Amtrak trains are often shunted for freight to have priority.

    • @Pieisawesome
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      42 hours ago

      Actually the law states that passenger rail has priority.

      It’s just unenforced so freight ignores it