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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Gilbert B Norman: [QB] As always, I respect Mr. Toy's predictable disagreement to my thoughts regarding the LD's. Once again, I further say to Mr. Toy, that I haven't been to the West Coast in some fifteen years, or for that matter much West of Amana Iowa "in a long time', is not any kind of boycott, I simply have no reason to do so (I [i]WAS[/i] going to make a trip - air - to Lodi CA to meet a possible "little sister" for my Newfoundland during 2002, but that fell through and accordingly so did the trip). Without access to any hard data, I contend that the LD's, absent the "hock the house" charades of the W Gang (albeit brought about by the "self sufficiency' language of ARAA '97), would be mighty close to putting into the cookie jar what they take out. People ride 'em, I don't deny that, and, I ride 'em myself albeit only to the East of CHI. But the fact remains that "one a day", or even "six a week', which don't even serve the fastest growing regions in the US, does not really comprise a transportation resource of any consequence. Further, we must recognize that the Class One railroads over which the LD's operate are "choking' with their own traffic. Owing to the largely double tracked ROW and that the Chief uses a secondary route for some one third of its route, as well as for the Zephyr a routing to be avoided by through freight, the BNSF seems to run 'em more or less on time. However, the Union Pacific's operational problems, without regard to class of service, are widely noted - simply too much traffic, and not enough plant. All of the above means that the Class Ones have to direct their resources to what counts - moving the freight! I'm sorry to be so pessimistic, and I will miss 'em myself. But I'm afraid that in the interest of best deploying scarce resources, i.e. Class One track capacity, it is time to find the drumhead that was affixed to the last UP #103 "City of Everywhere" and attach same to the now open diaphram of a Supeliner. The drumhead simply said: "Adios" [/QB][/QUOTE]
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