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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by TomDiehl</i> <br /><br />[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by MichaelSol</i> <br /><br />[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by solzrules</i> <br />[Steam engines require a ton of maintenance. It they could build a low maintenance steam engine that was profitable for the railroad (or any industry), I think they would have done that by now.[/quote] <br />There seems to be little support in the historical record for that. Milwaukee Road figures show maintenance costs went up. Brown's study for all Class I railroads shows that maintenance costs went up. <br /> <br />If it is so "obvious" that maintenance costs went down, then why does there seem to be <u>so much difficulty</u> showing any numbers to support it? OldTimer and TomDiehl seem to be able to generate a lot of name-calling, but are unable to generate a factual analysis, despite the allegation of so many studies "by all the railroads" unanimously showing the contrary. If there are that many studies, they should be like wallpaper. Oddly, OldTimer and TomDiehl just seem to have misplaced their copies. When I misplaced mine, I grabbed some annual reports and did an analysis. They can't seem to do that either. What's the problem here? <br /> <br />Best regards, Michael Sol <br /> <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />Well, since WE'RE being criticized for this: <br /> <br />I'm sorry, I must have missed this, where was it that you posted the link to the Brown study? <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />lol, GOOD ONE.
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