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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>The primary function of management is to increase shareholder's
wealth. Norfolk Southern is a very well managed corporation with the
right balance of priorities. I very much enjoy my railroad related interests
and hobbies and wish some things like the these tunnel portals that I've seen very
often in person railfanning over the years……… that have
so long been a part of the N&W didn't have to change….. but as
a NS shareholder I appreciate NS's efforts and look forward to the double stack
traffic to soon follow. It will have a positive effect it on my investment
in NS. This is what railroading is ultimately about.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Ed Painter; from Narrows, VA currently living in
Russellville, AR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> nw-mailing-list-bounces@nwhs.org
[mailto:nw-mailing-list-bounces@nwhs.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>NW Mailing List<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 27, 2010 12:44 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> NW Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Heartland Corridor Project<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>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<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:14 PM, NW Mailing List <<a
href="mailto:nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org">nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Mike,<br>
<br>
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>
<br>
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>
<br>
Cameron Tyre<br>
<br>
NS shareholder<br>
<br>
Sent from my Norfolk Southern ThoroughbredBerry on O2-UK<o:p></o:p></p>
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