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I wonder if Carolyn Mellon was related in any way to the Mellon who ran the old New Haven? (Some would say right into the ground... but since the NYNH&HRR spent a lot of time crashing and burning, that may be a foul canard.) Sniping at the Vanderbilts has been a national pastime for over a century. In fact, Cornelius Vanderbilt was soundly blasted from many American pulpits for imposing "Vanderbilt time" (present time zones) on an unhappy and unwilling American populace. (It didn't make a difference to anyone outside railroading that the time zone practice standardized train schedules... and made for safer operation.) I chuckle when people squawk over The Commodore's comment that "The Public be d-----d!"... because in context, he was talking about running passenger trains over HIS railroad at rates the public would accept... at the cost of running much more profitable freight trains. Does that sound familiar to anyone? Bueller? Bueller? Hobos. Saw an interesting A&E special narrated by Bill Kurtis on hobos and how rail police deal with them. My general impression is that if they aren't criminals, they are idiots. Who wants to play on the moving freight cars? Even professional railroaders shake their heads at the foolishness these folks exhibit. As far as the rather strange final paragraphs of the initial message read, I can only reply by repeating the words of President James Earl Carter, noted supported of Habitat for Humanity... "Life...is unfair." Erik
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