I don't agree. I think NS is doing what they should be doing as a business. The tunnels needed to be altered because of change s in the NS traffic mix. Also NS has done a great deal of preservation. Consider all of what NS has donated to our archives and the space they let us use in the GOB in Roanoke. If they weren't a successful railroad do you think they would do these things for the N&WHS!<br>
<br>John Rhodes<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:14 PM, NW Mailing List <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org">nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Mike,<br>
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I totally agree with what you say about the way the tunnels have been altered. I guess this is what photographs, movie films and memories are for. As you say the railroads, and in our case NS, are run as businesses and must be in a constant drive to improve, streamline, review, grow and so on and so forth.<br>
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Yes the corridor project is radically altering the look and aesthetics of the tunnels in question but there are other tunnels around the US especially abandoned ones which remain unaltered. It's just unfortunate that some of the 19th and early 20th century engineering works were so impressive and memorable that they have become something special in their own right and not just part of a transportation system built by businessmen to make a return on their investors' money.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
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Cameron Tyre<br>
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NS shareholder<br>
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