Talk:Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway

message: Wikipedia is not about what you want the world to be. And while it can, under certain circumstances, be allowable to make predictions, you can never describe the future in the present tense.
MM&A is still alive. Just. The business is still in control of the railroad, it's still running trains. It's managed by bankruptcy trustees and its closure and transfer of assets to another entity is imminent.
We even know the LIKELY date of the transfer: March 31st.
But it's not dead yet. And won't be until (most likely) March 31st. Like I just said.
So will everyone PLEASE be careful about what you write? This isn't a competition for who gets to find out it's dead first. When you jump in and say "Isitideadisitdead oooh boy isitdead isitdead? itsdead! I winiwiniwin!!" and it's not yet, you undermine Wikipedia because anyone reading the article who actually needs to know is going to be fed false information. The fact is if I need something, today, transferred over that line, I need to contact the people at MMARail.com. If I contact Fortress Investment Group, I'm going to get laughed at.
Please. Curb your enthusiasm. And remember, FWIW: MM&A is bankrupt because of the deaths of 47 people. Your enthusiasm in that context is, perhaps, a little misplaced?
Thank you,
--98.254.202.225 (talk) 21:03, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
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message: And how about an update on what the result was of the engineer and supervisor and everyone else remotely involved (except the local firemen who shut the locomotive off, of course) being dragged into court? Were they convicted? Fined? Found not guilty? Is the case still dragging on?
As far as I can see they didn't do anything that wasn't standard practice around here, and aside from failing to set enough hand brakes (which wouldn't have been a problem if over-enthused and under-experienced local volunteer firemen hadn't shut the engine - and the brakes - off), so I am curious whether they were actually sacrificed as political scapegoats, or if it was just a gesture to appease the public, and nothing ever came of it.
64.222.125.125 (talk) 19:21, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Court