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Railroads and Kids: Public Relations and the Internet

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Railroads and Kids: Public Relations and the Internet
Posted by wallyworld on Tuesday, February 20, 2007 8:28 AM

I remember in the 1950's sending away for a packet of information on railroading from the AAR. I waited and checked the mailbox everyday like Ralphie waiting for his decoder ring in Christmas Story...Here I am decades later and find that a Class One is actually reaching out to those who may ultimately either work for or become a fan of the road...of this dreams are made..

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/February2007/19/c9840.html

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

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Posted by al-in-chgo on Tuesday, February 20, 2007 2:24 PM
 wallyworld wrote:

I remember in the 1950's sending away for a packet of information on railroading from the AAR. I waited and checked the mailbox everyday like Ralphie waiting for his decoder ring in Christmas Story...Here I am decades later and find that a Class One is actually reaching out to those who may ultimately either work for or become a fan of the road...of this dreams are made..

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/February2007/19/c9840.html

 

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That's wonderful!  CP has a tradition of tradition, if you know what I mean.  Very proactive of them to get started young. They might just raise a generation of young Canadians who, in their politics and practices, will have a much better idea about what a railway is and what it can do.  I wish them well and wish some of the lines down here would do similar acts.  -  a.s.

 

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Posted by CNW 6000 on Tuesday, February 20, 2007 2:31 PM

Dan

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