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Feature: Hunter's way or the highway

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Posted by tree68 on Friday, April 14, 2017 12:44 PM

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You lose thousands of carloads that collectively made you money.

This is my thought, as well - all those cars have to come from somewhere.  It's not all bulk trains.  As was pointed out earlier (or maybe it's a different thread), there will always be a bottom 20%.  Get rid of the bottom 20% and there's a new bottom 20%.  

We say in the fire service that all fires go out, eventually.  It may be because the building has burned to the ground and there's nothing left to burn...

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Posted by Paul_D_North_Jr on Friday, April 14, 2017 1:37 PM

Losing just 1 small building is one thing.  Having it turn into a spreading conflagration and losing an entire apartment building, block, or even a whole town or city (Great Chicago Fire) is another.  As such, this analogy may pertain to CP and CSX, and the difference between losing 1 small customer vs. many more. 

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Posted by Shadow the Cats owner on Friday, April 14, 2017 3:09 PM

It is more like the death of 1000 cuts with EHH.  The cuts of revenue from the smaller customers may not seem like much at first however over time they add up to massive amounts of money that the railroad ran off and could have used to improve itself and now it must try and recover from and it can not as it is bleeding from all over the place and it has run out of band aids to apply to stop the bleeding. 

 

Just look at Sears they failed to see what the future was in retail and now have resorted to selling of sections of the company to keep their heads above water. 

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