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Does my Life have a Operating Ratio? or OR?

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Posted by RDG467 on Thursday, October 26, 2017 7:55 AM

Larry, at the Streamliner's to Spencer event, we held cab tours of an F-3 on the diesel service tracks inside the roundhouse. I think the grandfathers (who remembered seeing F-Big Smileunits as young-uns) had bigger smiles than their grandsons when sitting in the engineer's seat. Big Smile  <-- Like that

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And what value does one place on running a train and hearing a young child say as he climbs down the steps as he gets off and says, "That was SUPPER PEACHY NEAT-O!" with a big grin on his face. I'll bet Tree68 has had similar ones. 

 

Kids, schmids.  I hear that from ADULTS.  

Every now and then, conditions permitting, we'll give someone a cab ride.  I'm not sure how many "birthdays to remember" I'm probably responsible for.  

Even a simple visit to the cab while we're in the station (with requisite picture of them in the seat taken by the better half, either in the cab or from the ground) leaves many visitors excited.

 

 

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Tuesday, October 24, 2017 8:19 PM

zugmann

With our friend on here, we worry more about his BAC than his OR.

 

I bet the two numbers are related.

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Posted by zugmann on Tuesday, October 24, 2017 3:34 PM

With our friend on here, we worry more about his BAC than his OR.

It's been fun.  But it isn't much fun anymore.   Signing off for now. 


  

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Tuesday, October 24, 2017 3:29 PM

Semper Vaporo

What value do you put on your wife saying, "I'm divorcing you because I can't stand you anymore." ?

 

It depends on the context I suppose. There was an old country song by Roy Clark that might be applicable: Thank God and Greyhound you're gone.

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Posted by Ulrich on Tuesday, October 24, 2017 12:00 PM

Semper Vaporo

What value do you put on your wife saying, "I'm divorcing you because I can't stand you anymore." ?

 

 

Priceless.. total freedom.. bring it on. 

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Posted by CandOforprogress2 on Monday, October 23, 2017 6:44 PM
I am divorcing you because your operating ratio is in the negative for far too long
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Posted by tree68 on Monday, October 23, 2017 6:30 PM

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And what value does one place on running a train and hearing a young child say as he climbs down the steps as he gets off and says, "That was SUPPER PEACHY NEAT-O!" with a big grin on his face. I'll bet Tree68 has had similar ones. 

Kids, schmids.  I hear that from ADULTS.  

Every now and then, conditions permitting, we'll give someone a cab ride.  I'm not sure how many "birthdays to remember" I'm probably responsible for.  

Even a simple visit to the cab while we're in the station (with requisite picture of them in the seat taken by the better half, either in the cab or from the ground) leaves many visitors excited.

 

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Posted by Semper Vaporo on Monday, October 23, 2017 6:26 PM

What value do you put on your wife saying, "I'm divorcing you because I can't stand you anymore." ?

Semper Vaporo

Pkgs.

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Posted by Electroliner 1935 on Monday, October 23, 2017 6:22 PM

And what value does one place on running a train and hearing a young child say as he climbs down the steps as he gets off and says, "That was SUPPER PEACHY NEAT-O!" with a big grin on his face. I'll bet Tree68 has had similar ones. 

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Posted by Electroliner 1935 on Monday, October 23, 2017 6:13 PM

How does one value the pleasure of riding a train? To paraphrase the commercial. Priceless, for everything else, there's Mastercard.

How does one value the joy of dancing with your daughter at her wedding. It filled my heart with pleasure, and she had a low cost weding which brought pleasure to my budget. 

How does one value watching your children and grandchildren graduate from college. And many other intangibles in everyday life. As I grow old, I think about all the mileposts I have passed and am thankfull that I didn't have to make a justification for them. Didn't have to have a form C or any other orders. Just had to do what one is supposed to do and have been fortunate to not have made any bad choices. Many have helped me, and I hope I have helped others. But an OR? Not in my family.

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Posted by Norm48327 on Monday, October 23, 2017 1:07 PM

[quote user="BaltACD"]

A Operating Ratio for one's life discounts the elements that make life worth living - 'Holy S..t I can believe I did that' - from both the good and bad sides of our lives.  Life is not about profit and loss - it is about what one experiences on the journey./quote]

Balt,

Certainly can't disagree with you. While I by no means got rich I had several different careers in my lifetime; all of them interesting and I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything. They included being a professional firefighter, a few others along the way, and an aircraft mechanic working on small planes and dealing with their owners.

The journey has been a good one. Life is what you make it. On a satisfaction scale I would rate mine as a nine out of ten. No way did I want to be stuck in a rut or be compartmentalized. Variety!

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Posted by CandOforprogress2 on Sunday, October 22, 2017 4:26 PM

So if I have a income of 16,000.00 and have life expences of 22,000.00 and have to borrow to make up the diffrence whats my OR? What if I recieve subsidies aka welfare in the way of Food Stamps and General Assintance in the amount of 5,000.00 a year? Seems to me that the Federal subsidy of a billion or so a year to Amtrak should that count as Income to Amtrak? If we just change what we call the subsidy from a subsidy to a payment for services rendered like we do for the local garbage company (My local garbage company charges a bag fee but the fee does not begin to cover the actual costs the rest is made up by contract.). I know that Amtrak has a negative OR but if we agree that Amtrak is a nessary goverment service like clean air and water and the Army and the subsidy is actauly a taxpayer expence then really Amtrak has a 50/50 operating ratio. Not making money but not losing a ton of money either. The Army for that matter and our war on terror aka Homeland Security and our EPA if we factor in the cost of those programs vs the real social and monetary $$$$$ value of those benifits the OR might wake us up.

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Posted by BaltACD on Friday, October 20, 2017 11:13 AM

A Operating Ratio for one's life discounts the elements that make life worth living - 'Holy S..t I can believe I did that' - from both the good and bad sides of our lives.  Life is not about profit and loss - it is about what one experiences on the journey.

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Posted by GERALD L MCFARLANE JR on Friday, October 20, 2017 11:00 AM

Euclid

 

Norm48327
 
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Ah, the classic two-prong personal attack. Nice touch Norm.

 

The wink emoticon was put there to indcate sarcasm. It was intended as a joke.

 

 

 

 

Sarcasm is really just hostility disguised as humor. Wink

 

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/think-well/201206/think-sarcasm-is-funny-think-again

 

 
 Read the article and you'll find that dash of sarcasm here and there is just fine, it's only when you speak in sarcasm in large doses does it tend to reflect hostility disquised as humor...so in this case I think it's fine.  Always read before commenting or posting a link, you never know when you might be in error.
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Posted by billio on Friday, October 20, 2017 10:01 AM

Ulrich

Please don't apply business metrics to your life. Life is to be lived and not measured.

 

I'm not so sure.  Wasn't it Plato who suggested something to the effect that the life unexamined is not worth living?

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Posted by Ulrich on Friday, October 20, 2017 9:37 AM

Please don't apply business metrics to your life. Life is to be lived and not measured. 

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Posted by samfp1943 on Friday, October 20, 2017 9:14 AM

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Would that be my Income from my jobs and collecting cans divided by my expences of housing ,food, health care and transportation? Whats good way to come up with a number?

 

Whatever money is left after all bills and other finaincial obligations are paid divided by the Gross Income recieved over the same period of time.

 

   My My 2 Cents  Immediately,IMHO  one has to factor in wreckless, and irresponsible, personal behaviors leading to potentially, life-altering decisions.

          Their consequential circumstances; any of which can find one on the river of life{de Nile] without a paddle...[ maybe, 'here' that might be, a loose car, without a brake club?]Sigh

 

 


 

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Posted by Euclid on Friday, October 20, 2017 9:04 AM

Norm48327
 
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Ah, the classic two-prong personal attack. Nice touch Norm.

 

The wink emoticon was put there to indcate sarcasm. It was intended as a joke.

 

 

Sarcasm is really just hostility disguised as humor. Wink

 

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/think-well/201206/think-sarcasm-is-funny-think-again

 

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Posted by Norm48327 on Friday, October 20, 2017 7:54 AM

Euclid
Ah, the classic two-prong personal attack. Nice touch Norm.

The wink emoticon was put there to indcate sarcasm. It was intended as a joke.

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Posted by Euclid on Friday, October 20, 2017 7:50 AM

Norm48327
 
CandOforprogress2

Would that be my Income from my jobs and collecting cans divided by my expences of housing ,food, health care and transportation? Whats good way to come up with a number?

 

First question that comes to mind is 'DO YOU REALLY HAVE A LIFE"? Or are you Bucky's alter ego. Wink

 

Ah, the classic two-prong personal attack.  Nice touch Norm.  Wink

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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Friday, October 20, 2017 6:59 AM

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well such pleasant people on this forum.

 
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Posted by ruderunner on Friday, October 20, 2017 4:45 AM

well such pleasant people on this forum.

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Posted by Norm48327 on Thursday, October 19, 2017 1:02 PM

CandOforprogress2

Would that be my Income from my jobs and collecting cans divided by my expences of housing ,food, health care and transportation? Whats good way to come up with a number?

First question that comes to mind is 'DO YOU REALLY HAVE A LIFE"? Or are you Bucky's alter ego. Wink

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Thursday, October 19, 2017 8:53 AM

Don't forget to factor in IQ. Whistling

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Posted by BaltACD on Thursday, October 19, 2017 8:46 AM

CandOforprogress2
Would that be my Income from my jobs and collecting cans divided by my expences of housing ,food, health care and transportation? Whats good way to come up with a number?

Whatever money is left after all bills and other finaincial obligations are paid divided by the Gross Income recieved over the same period of time.

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Does my Life have a Operating Ratio? or OR?
Posted by CandOforprogress2 on Wednesday, October 18, 2017 10:48 AM

Would that be my Income from my jobs and collecting cans divided by my expences of housing ,food, health care and transportation? Whats good way to come up with a number?

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