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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Modelcar ...Mark Hemphill's column in January's TRAINS, page 4...has alarming projections for the future and well being of our rail network and upcoming success. Among other facts indicated in the article the railroad industry is not generating enough capitol to sustain itself for the long term. Physical plant is in excellent shape now, but moving forward the revenue incoming will not be able to maintain such. Auto assembly plants moving closer to customer population, trackage capacity shrinking and tonnage growing, Manufacturing evaporating in this country, and those loads being replaced by lower margin containers and so on....[:(] What are our thoughts on this potential development... [/quote] My thoughts? Mr Hemphill is an excellant "caldron stirrer". Very knowledgable, well informed, and personally insightful (inciteful?[:)] ) but in the same spirit as the much famed "Doomesday economists" a numberof items outside the "cauldron" would have to fall into place like magic for the worst case scenario to eventualize. The buying public is too fickel for much of a threat to solidify. As soon as someone like SAAB decided to build a plant in Arizona, their brand would enjoy a surge of popularity in Florida, or the Northeast,..etc etc.
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