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Junctionfan...Thanks for your kind words. Conrailman, I agree. <br />Perhaps my notion of Oconomowoc and Aurora as end points would mean that on those segments speeds could be held at normal track speeds which are respectable. Those segments amount to 38 miles and about 32 miles each. <br />Remeber. The service has to be upgraded on image as well as on-time performance before you can get the market share. There has to be that investment. My analogy for the evening is, "I won't spend a dime on new clothes,a haircut, a decent car, or bathe and shave until I get 3 women to accept a date with me." With that attitude you're going home with a video, ma boy. Once, when I was art director in the offices of the South Shore Line, and after my first wife passed away, I became dispondant about not being able to find a girlfriend. One of my friends in the office replied, Mitch, we're railroaders. We've learned to thrive on rejection." I think there was a lot of depth in that statement. It went far beyond social circumstances. I think our industry has come to the point in its relationships to the outside world that it expects to fail, and has a degree of comfort in that. Not much is expected other than equipment showing up at some point. <br />Mitch
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