Innovation Is the Antidote
The recent interesting piece titled “PSR: Can We Please Be Honest Here?” encapsulates perfectly what seems to be either the broad sentiment toward, or growing disillusionment, with the PSR operating strategy that now has been adopted by most railroads. But it does not seem to offer up any possible solutions to the seemingly systemic problems the author describes in great detail. So let me, as a young railroader who has set out to actually build tools that can hopefully help mitigate some of the chronic service problems our industry seems to suffer from, offer up a different, more optimistic perspective.