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Interesting perspective...... When I read the "AL Pearlman" feature in trains, imagine my total shock to read about the man I have worked for,for 27 years, in such stunning detail. Especialy since my boss has never worked a day on the railroad in his life. How so? you ask... Well, the excentric personality, devoted to the well being of the company was such a "straight on" clone of our owner, right down to the "lets teach incompetance a lesson, so it never rears it's ugly head again" methodology of training people, my jaw just dropped when reading the article. I made half a dozen photocopies, and passed em around to my co-workers, just saying "read this, then tell me if it reminds you of anyone" Their responses the following day were classic. Among those who have endured the brunt close hand, there is never any doubt that such acts are only the product of a desire to not be beat, and as such are commendable in their own right. I'll bet if I and that Flannery guy could sit down and share some war stories, we would have pattern after pattern in common. Pearlman made some mistakes,.....most noteably in his thrift oriented disdain against buying adequate numbers of motive power, early on with NYC. But, given my own experiances with my own "Pearlman" (he's been on the Forbes 400 for something like 35 straight years, not MANY can make that claim) I'd hitch my wagon to his, any ol day... After the abuse of each day draws to a close, you realize there aren't many men who he would even look forward to having on his team the following day, and just being one of those is one heck of a compliment, once you learn to read the language.....
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