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Starting over 40 years ago with a direct Pennsy/Cotton Belt connection in E. St. Louis the railroads found ways to bypass St. Louis. On top of the Kansas City interchange for the NS; BNSF, UP, NS and CSXT move many trainloads of interchange via Salem and other Southern IL interchanges. The IC pulled the plug on St. Louis many years ago in favor of Memphis.
I hope there is not an assumption that railroad managers are expected to never make mistakes. It isn't so. Also, they can not walk on water.
#2 on the white collar side of operating the business. Getting a few thousand people to pull in the same direction.
Does China attempt to run high speed trains on right of way shared with local passenger trains or coal trains? If they do are the tracks used by the high speed trains and regular trains interconnected?
This Economist cover from several years ago is a good place to begin discussions of mergers http://www.sessionmagazine.com/img/lifestyle/best-magazine-covers/best-magazine-covers16.jpg.
The UP does not go about adopting new ideas in this way. I think they were pulling your leg.
[quote user="eolafan"] [quote user="bobwilcox"] The UP does not go about adopting new ideas in this way. I think they were pulling your leg. [/quote] Really? Remember we're speaking of the railroad which thought up, and implemented ideas like the U50, the DDA40X (and other twin diesels), the Big Boy, the G.E. Turbines, etc., etc. While I am not saying the "idea" noted above is for real, but I would put NOTHING past the U.P. when it comes to ingenious (some would
We were at the Grennbrier about a year ago. It is a glorious example on a fine resort hotel. If you are going to be near White Sulfur Springs shooting the CSXT it would be a good idea to drop in for lunch and take a look around. Just pack a sport coat and tie. In times past the Greenbrier has pitched themselves to conventions. The National Industrial Traffic League and the American Chemistry Council met there regularly before I retired. Lately the Congressional caucuses of both parties have taken
I think a first step to understanding any data presented for or against a policy is to understand who paid for the data and their point of view. In the 1950s there were long debates about the adequcy of highway taxes on trucks paying for the extra maintance caused by trucks. Needless to say the AAR studies were vastly different than the ATA studies. I don't think their is necessarily any evil intent with these various spins on data but it is very important to understand just where people are
A little realism from Claude Monet once he got past platform security in Paris.