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Mark: <br /> <br />Your query about making sense of roadway investment statistics is a good one. Trends in the physcal units (ties, rail, and ballast), viewed with a knowledgeable "eye" on the over-all company performance in the areas of safety, service and finance and comparable views of competitive lines is about as much as one can do at a distance. <br />My experience suggests these elements will provide useful insight. <br /> <br />There is nothing like an engineering evaluation, but who can do that? Only the railroad itself, or an experienced engineering consultant with access to the property. Knowledgeable railroad employees and knowledgeable rail fans can certainly give an informed layman's view of gross roadway conditions at a given time and location (perhaps even over a division), but few can make enough observations to give a "system-wide" view. <br /> <br />Back to your question, though. I don't know what years you were looking at, but I suppose recent ones. I think the reason you didn't identify anything unusual is because there wasn't anything unusual. The Class I's are in good shape. Were one to dig out data on PC, MKT, CRIP, and even as recently as SP, a different picture would emerge. <br /> <br />One can't trust "numbers" to the total exclusion of anecdote, but over time some quantitative confirmation must emerge or I discount the anecdotes.
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