Two more articles on rail incapacity = trouble for RR's

[zardoz]

QUOTE: Originally posted by mudchicken

QUOTE: Originally posted by zardoz

I hear footsteps...could they be Bergie's?

Oh please!......or it's FM's alma-mater out looking for his ego inflated carcass so it can take back a degree that has been horribly mis-applied. ( or is it something created to pad a resume?)[}:)][}:)][}:)]

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[rrandb]

QUOTE: Originally posted by futuremodal

QUOTE: Originally posted by rrandb

Some one has Opinions confused with Facts. It ain't ED. But there is an obvious case of a rectal cranial inversion.

Someone has reality confused with fantasy. It is ed whose brain don't work unless it is stimulated by fecal matter, and you who has not thought this thing through. Eddyboy has now stated that one HAS to be employed by the railroad industry in order for his or her views to be counted as being in the railroad industry POV.

I guess that leaves TRAINS, Railway Age, ProgressiveRailroading.com, et al out of the mix, eh?

These above posted publications all state that railroads are in the proccess of increasing there capacity. If they were "incapadable of doing so" then that would qualify as there "incapacity" to expand. Figure it out. I would love to see the facts that say unable to expand. Or are they just not doing so fast enough to make you happy.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by TomDiehl

And the award for the fist insult of the thread goes to (drum roll, please):

QUOTE: Originally posted by futuremodal

So now banjo boy is saying Wall Street rail analysts aren't part of the rail industry overview? Does anyone expect the AAR to produce these kinds of analysis?

Ed, stick your head back up your anal pore. That's the only way the synapses between your right and left brain can make the connection.

Wrong again, Tom. You are sure selective when it comes to pointing out the first insult barrage on all of these threads. As has been the case each and every time, the first insult comes from one of your type:

QUOTE: Dave, you may want to go back to reading the National Enquirer and Globe.
At least no one will be bothered with anything you misrepresent out of those two resource publications, and you might find out where the government and BNSF is hiding Elvis.

(Pretty sure they have him stashed in one of those abandoned wheat silos in Montana...)

Ed

Tom, you need to get a life. Join the Army. Do something useful with your life besides professional obfuscation.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by rrandb

QUOTE: Originally posted by futuremodal

QUOTE: Originally posted by rrandb

Some one has Opinions confused with Facts. It ain't ED. But there is an obvious case of a rectal cranial inversion.

Someone has reality confused with fantasy. It is ed whose brain don't work unless it is stimulated by fecal matter, and you who has not thought this thing through. Eddyboy has now stated that one HAS to be employed by the railroad industry in order for his or her views to be counted as being in the railroad industry POV.

I guess that leaves TRAINS, Railway Age, ProgressiveRailroading.com, et al out of the mix, eh?

These above posted publications all state that railroads are in the proccess of increasing there capacity. If they were "incapadable of doing so" then that would qualify as there "incapacity" to expand. Figure it out. I would love to see the facts that say unable to expand. Or are they just not doing so fast enough to make you happy.

Well, could you please point out where I said railroads were "incapadable of doing so" regarding the ability to increase capacity? Never said it.

What I have stated in past threads is that monopolistic actions are of a minimilist tendency. The profit for monopolists is predicated on careful control of the marketplace, prefering fewer customers with higher markups, e.g. high margins of small volume. The counter to this approach is the true competitive marketplace, where participants try and expand their customer base, making profit via small margins of high volume.

Since railroads are by their very nature high volume businesses, the monopolistic approach would seem counterintuitive to that end, but at the same time the anachronistic closed access system used by US railroads is predicated on that monopolistic approach.

What you get from this implicit internal polar opposite operational approach is the mess we have today - too few assets for the level of demand for rail services, a level of demand that was always there implicitly over the last few decades, but now is exhibited explicitly.

If only the rail industry had actually gone out over the last few decades and sold the use of those assets to those who would use them the way the potential user wanted to use them, and not necessarily use them the way the rail industry dictated it should be used.

Staggers should have instead paved the way for open access, then all those assets would have been preserved, and we wouldn't be here today facing a multi-billion dollar capacity deficit.

[TomDiehl]

QUOTE: Originally posted by futuremodal

QUOTE: Originally posted by TomDiehl

And the award for the fist insult of the thread goes to (drum roll, please):

QUOTE: Originally posted by futuremodal

So now banjo boy is saying Wall Street rail analysts aren't part of the rail industry overview? Does anyone expect the AAR to produce these kinds of analysis?

Ed, stick your head back up your anal pore. That's the only way the synapses between your right and left brain can make the connection.

Wrong again, Tom. You are sure selective when it comes to pointing out the first insult barrage on all of these threads. As has been the case each and every time, the first insult comes from one of your type:

QUOTE: Dave, you may want to go back to reading the National Enquirer and Globe.
At least no one will be bothered with anything you misrepresent out of those two resource publications, and you might find out where the government and BNSF is hiding Elvis.

(Pretty sure they have him stashed in one of those abandoned wheat silos in Montana...)

Ed

Tom, you need to get a life. Join the Army. Do something useful with your life besides professional obfuscation.

So the fact that you misrepresent what was said in the links that YOU posted is an insult? Are you saying that you made a mistake posting them?

Or not reading them BEFORE you posted them?

FYI, I've done my 20 in the Air Force. Maybe when you graduate from high school you should try a hitch in some branch of the military. You'd learn how easy it is to spot the BS factor in posts like yours.

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

Dave:
You are proving yourself to be a major disappointment to me and many others. I offered you some useful personal advice on another thread which I assumed by your response that you would take to heart and earn my respect.

I have noted in several postings made by you since that time that you continue to respond with a shrillness and self-righteousness that comes across like a combination of Rush Limbaugh and Anne Coulter, neither of whom can open their mouths without attempting to subtract from the sum of human knowledge. Your putdowns of all who dare to disagree with you demonstrate a lack of respect for any opinion other than your own. As a result, you have lost my respect and any semblance of credibility with me.

[Anonymous]

This whole thread is now a waste of time and populated with egos. I say it is time to move on.