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All very interesting and good points. I have to wonder if there is the pool of transportation executives out there that there were fifty years ago. All the bios of "successful" rail executives seem to have some railroading experience in them- Claytor on the Southern being an exception. It appears that back in the "good old days", railroads thought nothing about hiring VP's for Operations aways from each other "to fix problems". <br /> <br />Somehow I kinda doubt this would, or can, happen today. The board of directors at UP is not likely to hire a Ray Krebs away from BNSF. I don't think it's likely that some of the top execs at NS have gotton feelers from UP about coming over to the dark side to "fix problems". <br /> <br />In short, I wonder if there is any kind of available pool of successful railroad executives out there... who have the neccessary operations experience as well as the financial moxie to do what needs to be done. <br /> <br />Finally, I'm reminded of a quote I heard concerning the dotcom bust along with ENRON and MCI meltdowns: "Anyone who actually believes their own press releases is headed for an unhappy wakeup call." <br /> <br />Erik
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