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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by tomubee Limitedclear: Rails did an overall good job of maintaining infrastructure, and a few still do. Operations personnel on some carriers will tell you privately that the number of slow orders is rising dramatically. I don't need to cite specific examples, but any engineer or conductor on one or more of the class ones would concur. Denial is not a river in Egypt. [/quote] Tom- We have fewer slow orders on the lines I operate than I can remember during my career. I'm sure that MOW budgets aren't huge given the economy and needs in other areas. Railroads have a lot of places to spend money these days and not that much money to spend. In case you haven't noticed, with the troubles in trucking we have more traffic than has moved in quite a while, cars and locomotives of all types are critically short particularly centerbeams, coal hoppers and seasonally grain hoppers. So this Engineer doesn't agree with your thesis or your "most conductors and engineers". Besides, I could get at least half of the guys I work with to buy Enron stock if I told them to, so 5 out of 6 conductors surveyed doesn't do much for me...lol... LC
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