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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yes there will be drawbars breaking, air hoses needing replacement, brakes that need to be cut out, and lots of other things that go wrong with locomotives and cars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These problems will need a network of men in trucks staged and ready to descend on any mechanical problem. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Communications, mobility, preparedness, manpower, and teamwork will be ready to fix anything in short order.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They will drive right to any problem along the train.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">There will be no more carrying knuckles through the snow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> The mobil repair service</span> will be like a traveling pit stop that goes where it is needed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is an added expense that must be paid for by the elimination of trainmen, but it will also be paid for by the fact that it will get the repair job done much faster than trainmen do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p>
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