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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by jwinter</i> <br /><br />[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by Limitedclear</i> <br /><br />[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by artmark</i> <br /><br />[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by BNSFGP38</i> <br /><br />I like the quote a railroad owner I know says about paint. "When in creation did a paint job make a locomotive faster or pull more cars". Rather true if you think about it. <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />Of course that's true. If you think no one is looking, you don't like yourself, or have no confidence in your product, or feel that you don't have to participate with the rest of the world. It's also what you think of your customers. <br />But it sure can pull! <br /> <br />Mitch <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />Or, if: <br /> <br />1. You care more about delivering the freight than what some yahoos trackside think about your artistic ability, or; <br /> <br />2. You have to make real world decisions and prioritize expenditures such that maintenance of the track, equipment, training and payroll, among the many other expenses of operating a railroad and paint is just barely on the radar screen below most of those other things, or; <br /> <br />3. You consider that your customers who most of the time are trying to chisel that last nickel out of your rate would rather have that nickel than give it to the railroad to handle the necessary expenses of providing good rail service, or; <br /> <br />4. Any or all of the above. <br /> <br />THEN, you worry more about the mechanical condition of the power and how much it can pull, then you do about how pretty it is... <br /> <br />LC <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />So maybe railroads should just forget about colorful designs and corporate image!?!? <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />Not necessarily, but everyone needs to put the question of paint in its proper perspective. <br /> <br />LC
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