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Some congratulations and kudos go out today to a couple of locals. David Gunn, who ran our Metro system for several years and the New York City transit system, and who was the president of Amtrak during some of the system’s most trying years, has been elected to the Hall of Fame of the American Public Transportation Association. Mr. Gunn was, by anyone’s measure, a straight shooter: He told you how he felt about things and didn’t sugarcoat it. I asked him once in his Union Station office at Amtrak whatever he might be interested in coming back to Metro. He said he didn’t think the board would like what he had to say. He kept in his office a large piece of electric conduit with a burned end. When asked why he would keep something so unattractive in such a nice office, he said it was to remind him of how the little things can shut down an entire system. A short in that piece of wiring shut down a portion of the Northeast Corridor’s train system for the better part of a day.

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