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I have to wonder how much of it is "chicken vs the egg" Though I have never worked in railroading, I did work in management for 28 of the 20 years I wiorked for the same real estate company. And stood witness to managerial "misdirection" that takes place as a company grows, on several occassions. It goes like this: you have a guy who can do his job well so you give him more to do, relying on "good ol Bob" to carry the ball for you Bob may be very good at what he does, middle management in this example, but after enough years of top management coming through, deciding "what else" he can or SHOULD be doing, you get to a point wher it's more than any one man cn do. If you complicate that with enough of the high powered executives from th top telling Bob "What ever you do, I don't EVER want to come through here again and see "this (new) portion of your job not done again" then Bob has to start shuffling priorities, and pretty soon Bob becomes more of an expert on the things that he safely can NOT get done, where he will be the only one who knows what isn't getting done, and his job becomes one of rushing around, putting out "fires" I say this without knowing a darn thing about running a railroad simply because, for all the faults the "failing" railroads that ultimately came together under the UP flag, SP, CNW, Frisco, etc MANAGED to run a railroad for years longer as an on going entity before some genius decided that the holy grail was to merge, eliminate duplicity in function among the staff, and try to take advantage of the resulting numbers, yielding the current condition. If you are establishing policy for large operation from a central location, you better be darn sure that policy "fits" the situation "all throughout the kingdom", if it doesn't because of unique local conditions,...you are sunk. Sure, it's "all" just running a railroad, but one of the biggest benefits of 'decentralized' administration is flexibility, something that appears almost absent in the leviathon UP. All that "nasty flexibility" seems to be branded "waste" and cut out accordingly...
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