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So you're ticked that the tunnel portals got notched?  Big deal.  Norfolk
Southern is a business not a museum.  NS is doing some steam excursions for
PR and marketing which is a reasonable use of money.  Installing new portals
versus notching the old ones for purely aesthetic reasons is a WASTE OF
MONEY!  Be realistic.  Having pretty tunnel portals doesn't help PR or
marketing like my earlier example or do anything else that has any value.

John Rhodes (not an employee of NS)

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:11 AM, NW Mailing List
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> I don’t need numbers to support my position, or defend it.  You don’t have

> to agree although I think many of you do.

>

> First of all, I don’t trust anybody that sees only green dollars.  Secondly,

> is there anybody out there who thinks that a third-grader with a hammer and

> chisel wouldn’t have done a neater, cleaner, more professional job of

> opening up the tunnels?  I am not talking about the hardworking people who

> actually did the work asked of them.  They were top notch.  I am talking

> about the directors of the projects who abandoned their pride in the

> railroad to save a few dollars.  It was a hatchet job.  Vandalism.

> Desecration.

>

> I love Norfolk Southern, N&W and the Virginian—that is why I feel the way I

> do.  Do they send out stock certificates with ragged edges?  Do any of the

> executives live in run-down homes?  If any of them commissioned work on

> their homes and it turned out like the tunnel portals, would they revel in

> how much money they saved?

>

>

> Dave, you asked what a semi-bottom line is.  It is my way of saying that

> it answers the question “What is the cost now?” and doesn’t take into

> account, “what is the long term cost?”  There may be no way of knowing

> long term cost, but it should be considered by smart people.  They knew

> the cost of not opening the tunnels, after all.

>

> Michael Shockley

>

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