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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by trainfinder22 Ed Ellis was a pretty bright kid with a lot of great Ideas to bring back freight railroading to the mainstream. One of these was that Amtrak should be in the freight buisness because Amtraks priority ans higher speeds would bring traffic to the rails that would otherwise go by road. Amtrak should also be the freight buisness for envirometal reasons as well because the Freight Railroads want nothing to do with LTL or Pallet shipments. Was not LTL and mail supposed to save amtrak? Mail needs more time because it takes at least 7 years or more for ANY buiseness to break even. MR GUNN is Playing Chicken with the feds again in that he thinks that all Passenger Rail should be subsidised like a National Subway system. Since he has no experance with Freight which have ALWAYS subsidized passenger service since day one running Passenger and freight together is a foreing concept to a TRANSIT MAN.. We NEED National high speed LTL service as a matter of national policy to unclog our roads and have cleaner air.[:)] [/quote] TF- After reading Mark Hemphill's comments, I had to look back at your original post (above). Where do you come up with this stuff?!? Have you ever run a business??? If you start a buisiness, and it doesn't turn a profit in five (5) years, the IRS has a word for that. They call it a "Hobby" and tax you on it. So, I have no idea where your concept of 7 years to profitability being normal is coming from. It just isn't so... I would also point out that David Gunn has PLENTY of experience with freight from his days on the ATSF. I guess I should just get used to you bellowing hot air, because that is all it is... LC
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