![]() Amtrak had grown to become the nation’s sixth largest intercity public transportation company.īoyd reflected during an interview with The New York Times, “I foresee a bright future for the nation’s revitalized rail passenger network, and thus it is with mixed emotions that I end my direct involvement with Amtrak.” 1 According to an interview with Dan Cupper of Passenger Train Journal, Boyd believed he had accomplished three major goals at Amtrak: creating credibility for the company before Congress and the public reforming labor contracts to be in line with modern business practice and improving operations, particularly relationships with the host railroads that helped lead to better on-time performance. The prior year, Boyd presided over Amtrak’s 10 th anniversary in that first decade, total revenues had risen 311 percent to $506.3 million, while passenger miles traveled increased 60 percent. He had spent a little more than four years at the company’s helm, guiding Amtrak through the Congressionally-mandated 1979 route restructuring and a change in presidential administrations. In early May 1982, Amtrak President and Chairman Alan S.
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