As we talked, I tried to imagine joe vranich as a young man. We knew each other in the 1970s, when I was a newspaper reporter and he was executive director of the National Association of Railroad Passengers —an advocacy group—and later a spokesman for Amtrak. Now Vranich is 52, and he's in my office plugging his new book, "Derailed." It is, surprisingly, a denunciation of Amtrak. "You were right," he had written me, "and I was wrong." After all these years, Vranich now sees Amtrak as a huge blunder. It's an inescapable conclusion that, somehow, escapes Congress.
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