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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by MichaelSol [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by cementmixr This Brown is an outsider looking in. I am not particularly pursuaded by commentary from outsiders on the railroad industry. The woods are full of self-styled railroad experts. In my opinion, the place to start an analysis like this one is with primary source documents as found in a railroad company's archives. Surely every railroad made internal studies on the impact of dieselization. Where are the internal studies? I guess nobody here has read them. [/quote] Do you know Brown's background? Best regards, Michael Sol [/quote] Actually, I suspect there are probably not that many internal studies done post-mortem on diesel financing. Probably there were many done prior to it, projecting anticipated returns (these would have been prepared for the board of directors) but probably not that many after-the-fact studies. Companies don't have time and resources to spend writing histories about themselves; the past is a sunk cost, and their focus is on what's ahead. Someday maybe I will search for the Brown study while at the college library. -- OldTimer does not have any bad intentions or sinister motives here. He's just talking straight and telling us how he feels. Railroaders talk that way, and to me the honesty is refreshing. It wouldn't be much of a railroad forum if we drove away all the authentic railroaders, would it?
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