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NSDRA1...thank you for that long winded comment!!!!!!!!!! Ok that was me trying to be funny...i really liked what you had to say...you about summed the whole thing up. Me personally i dont own a single UP item. And i model a Freelance RR...so everything i buy just about is Undec...so not a soul can say i owe them crap. As for your opinion on railroads dying? Well not a single person here would want to admit your right...but you are. They are getting to big and the ones who are running them dont know what they are doing. I dont think that RRs will dissapear totally...but the big ones will eventually be chopped up and sold off and there will be a lot more regionals and smaller shortlines. Thats about the only plus side i can see tot he big RRs getting bigger...their lack of interest in running the little out of the way shortlines. Which if you have the money to start a business venture like that...seems like a good idea. <br /> <br />As far as st-UP-id is concerned...they are trying to be something they are not. If you look at UPs history...they liked to be innovators...they tested all the new crap (turbines and whatnot). They always had to be the Biggest and the Best. and now they are the biggest...far from the best. I think it makes them Jelous that their mahor competition in being First and New and The Innovator is the Canadian National. Remember the CN did mostly everything First. And they did a lot more then that. They basically invented the Wide Cab we have now. The had the first on train Phone. They built the Tallest Building on Earth (the CN tower). They were the first railroad in North America and still the only one to be a Transcontinental System East-West and are now the only one on earth or be East-West and North-South. I guess im trying to say that UP is acting like a child that isnt getting its own way. So what is it doing now...its being a spoiled brat...OH YOU WANNA PLAY WITH MY TOYS...WELL THEN YOUR GONNA PAY. Thats F***ing stUPid. Railroads are just like every other transportation company out there, (and i drive a truck for a living so i kinda know this)...they are always loosing and gaining business. One customer goes elsewhere...and one comes in...thats life. But how many RRs do you see advertising? Up and US...for what? You really think that shippers are watching MSNBC, MarketWrap, and the Bloomberg Report on the Finincial Networks to see which RRs commercial they like better as for who to ship with? I highly doubt that. <br /> <br />Im almost done....my prediciton...UP is the next Enron. I can just see it now...cuz if they are really that hard up for money...somone is dipping the till.
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