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Why is it so hard for modern railroads to provide complete door to door service and rates in one phone call?

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Posted by charlie hebdo on Sunday, August 22, 2021 4:26 PM

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It's ridiculous.  The Staggers Act was 50 years ago.  Still whining!

 

 

 

The Staggers Rail Act was passed in 1980.....

 

https://www.aar.org/article/freight-railroads-the-staggers-act-of-1980/

 
 

 

 

Right.  A typo doesn't change the fact that the rails or at least our resident expert is excusing the rail ineptitude in operating as customer-centered transportation operations today for a situation that ended 41 years ago. Living in the past,  riding the same ol' hobby horse. 

 

 

 

Actually not right... This doesn't excuse you from the fact you had the timeline wrong... If I said staggers was passed in 1970. ..Somebody proceeds to correct me and I reply with.. Right. The railroads are still whining!... Well I was still wrong about the timeline, and should accept the correction...

So to your statement railroads are whining..What exactly are they whining about?

 
 
 
 

Could you just go back and read my entire reply above? [Hint: resident expert].  Add BALT's remark about it taking the rails ten years after Staggers to start anew.  That's still 20 years.  Whole new industries have been started in less time. Perhaps you can understand? 

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Posted by BaltACD on Sunday, August 22, 2021 5:09 PM

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It's ridiculous.  The Staggers Act was 50 years ago.  Still whining! 

The Staggers Rail Act was passed in 1980..... 

https://www.aar.org/article/freight-railroads-the-staggers-act-of-1980/ 

Right.  A typo doesn't change the fact that the rails or at least our resident expert is excusing the rail ineptitude in operating as customer-centered transportation operations today for a situation that ended 41 years ago. Living in the past,  riding the same ol' hobby horse.  

Actually not right... This doesn't excuse you from the fact you had the timeline wrong... If I said staggers was passed in 1970. ..Somebody proceeds to correct me and I reply with.. Right. The railroads are still whining!... Well I was still wrong about the timeline, and should accept the correction...

So to your statement railroads are whining..What exactly are they whining about? 

Could you just go back and read my entire reply above? [Hint: resident expert].  Add BALT's remark about it taking the rails ten years after Staggers to start anew.  That's still 20 years.  Whole new industries have been started in less time. Perhaps you can understand? 

New industries have totally different trajectories than do established industries - they always have and they always will.

Established industries have a 'learned playbook' of what has made them what they are.  New industries are built upon 'throwing it against the wall and see what sticks'.  Established industries have thrown so much against the wall over their years so that they already know what sticks.  In new industries you may have 20 or more new firms - once the industries are a 'thing' they then start the process of merger and acquisition to shake the field down to a less than a handful and thus the become 'established'.

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Posted by charlie hebdo on Sunday, August 22, 2021 5:27 PM

Welcome and adapt to change or go the way of the horse and buggy or US Steel (the sun off is a shadow of the old steel company) or the O&W.

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Posted by n012944 on Sunday, August 22, 2021 5:31 PM

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Welcome and adapt to change or go the way of the horse and buggy or US Steel or the O&W.

 

 

And yet 41 years after the game changed, not 50 like you claimed, railroads are still making money hand over fist.   

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Posted by BaltACD on Sunday, August 22, 2021 6:03 PM

charlie hebdo
Welcome and adapt to change or go the way of the horse and buggy or US Steel (the sun off is a shadow of the old steel company) or the O&W.

Railroads have been adapting and changing ever since Statters.  While we may not like it - PSR is adaption and change from what existed before.  Who knows what form of adaption and change will follow PSR - but something will.

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Posted by charlie hebdo on Sunday, August 22, 2021 6:29 PM

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Welcome and adapt to change or go the way of the horse and buggy or US Steel or the O&W.

 

 

 

 

And yet 41 years after the game changed, not 50 like you claimed, railroads are still making money hand over fist.   

 

Ya know on a phone it's easy to hit the 5 instead of the 4, but you wouldn't know that.  

Profits and losing customers every day, hand over first. 

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Posted by n012944 on Monday, August 23, 2021 7:58 AM

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charlie hebdo

Welcome and adapt to change or go the way of the horse and buggy or US Steel or the O&W.

 

 

 

 

And yet 41 years after the game changed, not 50 like you claimed, railroads are still making money hand over fist.   

 

 

 

Ya know on a phone it's easy to hit the 5 instead of the 4, but you wouldn't know that.  

Profits and losing customers every day, hand over first. 

 

 

Ya know on a forum it is easy to edit a "mistake" on your own post, but you wouldn't know that.

 

Profits and gaining large customers every day, Amazon and Fed Ex come to mind.

 

 

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Posted by charlie hebdo on Monday, August 23, 2021 6:20 PM

n012944

 

 
charlie hebdo

 

 
n012944

 

 
charlie hebdo

Welcome and adapt to change or go the way of the horse and buggy or US Steel or the O&W.

 

 

 

 

And yet 41 years after the game changed, not 50 like you claimed, railroads are still making money hand over fist.   

 

 

 

Ya know on a phone it's easy to hit the 5 instead of the 4, but you wouldn't know that.  

Profits and losing customers every day, hand over first. 

 

 

 

 

Ya know on a forum it is easy to edit a "mistake" on your own post, but you wouldn't know that.

 

Profits and gaining large customers every day, Amazon and Fed Ex come to mind.

 

 

 

Ya but most people wouldn't need the correction to realize and understand the point of the sentence. 

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