Wall Street prefers taxpayer subsidized casino products and the newest Dick Tracy watch and other toys over long-term investments in the future, such as infrastructure.
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Murphy Siding diningcar What a d --- a-- thread. Where do these trolls come from???? Cleveland. Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy. A kid'll eat ivy too. Wouldn't you? Its 2015 and its been 100 years since that last class 1 railroad was built in this country. If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around, does it still make noise? Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth to this country that we are the champions my frined. And we'll keep on fighting 'till the end. Who let the dogs out? Who? Who? Come and listen to my story 'bout a man named Jed. Poor mountaineer barely kept his family fed. The one day, he was shootin' at some food on a three hour tour, with Giligan, the Skipper too, the milionaire, and his wife. If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it. Plop plop fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is. You too can have ring around the collar. Only her hairdresser knows for sure. Where's the beef? I suppose I could collect my books and head on back to school, or steal my Daddy's que, and make one small step for man, one giant step for mankind. And she's buying the stairway to heaven, cause he ain't heay, he's my brother. But don't you step on my blue suede shoes. And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon, little boy ble and the man in the moon. That big 8-wheeler rolling down the track means you're sweet lovin' daddy ain't a comin' back and I'm movin' on. Any questions?
diningcar What a d --- a-- thread. Where do these trolls come from????
What a d --- a-- thread. Where do these trolls come from????
Cleveland. Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy. A kid'll eat ivy too. Wouldn't you? Its 2015 and its been 100 years since that last class 1 railroad was built in this country. If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around, does it still make noise? Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth to this country that we are the champions my frined. And we'll keep on fighting 'till the end. Who let the dogs out? Who? Who? Come and listen to my story 'bout a man named Jed. Poor mountaineer barely kept his family fed. The one day, he was shootin' at some food on a three hour tour, with Giligan, the Skipper too, the milionaire, and his wife. If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it. Plop plop fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is. You too can have ring around the collar. Only her hairdresser knows for sure. Where's the beef? I suppose I could collect my books and head on back to school, or steal my Daddy's que, and make one small step for man, one giant step for mankind. And she's buying the stairway to heaven, cause he ain't heay, he's my brother. But don't you step on my blue suede shoes. And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon, little boy ble and the man in the moon. That big 8-wheeler rolling down the track means you're sweet lovin' daddy ain't a comin' back and I'm movin' on. Any questions?
Well, thats very substantive and significant.
What I would really add to that is "Be Boppa Lula...She's my Baby."
Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
My head hurts. I'm not interested in playing "Link the Losers" tonight.
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Last I recall - the Erie route from New York to Chicago was even more circuitous than any of the now existing routes.
As info CSX owns the PLE property from New Castle to Youngstown, even though they are not operating it.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Its 2015 and its been 100 years since that last class 1 railroad was built in this country. Our current railroad system is at capasity and poorly run. The railroads that were built in the Great Lakes region where built on glacial fill. I-80/I86 is bumper to bumper with trucks despite passing thry no major population centers. But Conrail and NS down graded the Buffalo Line and even cut it in half at Philldelphia and Erie is cut at St. Marys PA. It can take as long as 12 hours just to cover the last 60 miles into Newark New Jersey. On the west end in Chicago trains have to be unloaded and reloaded because that is actualy faster then having a train attempt to pass through the city. St Louis is prone now to civil unrest and LA is prone to labor unrest. Railroads wont take short haul freight under 400 miles and therefore is useless for alleviated congestion in the Northeast. They wont work with Utlities to have power lines and railroads share right of way and power. As fas as passenger trains RR management know that there mode is so unsafe that they wont let themselves or there kids ride it and prefer company private jets for there family outings. Railroads average median speed for freight is 15 miles per hour. The actual route miles are 20-30% more then the freeways that are built next to them. Despite what I could go on and on with a litney of complaints which everyone here knows and could add on the Class Ones actulay made a small but reasonable profit. My first choice for a transcon would be the Philly and Erie and then the PLE/ Erie to Akron OH rebuild the Erie west of there. My second choice would be the West Shore and then a new railroad in the medium strip of I-90. The National Grid Power Lines right of ways could also make a good right of way as well.
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