Heartland Corridor Project

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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.

Ed Painter;  from Narrows, VA currently living in Russellville, AR

From: nw-mailing-list-bounces at nwhs.org [mailto:nw-mailing-list-bounces at nwhs.org] On Behalf Of NW Mailing List
Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 12:44 PM
To: NW Mailing List
Subject: Re: Heartland Corridor Project

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!

John Rhodes
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:14 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org<mailto:nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>> wrote:
Mike,

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.

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.

Best regards,

Cameron Tyre

NS shareholder

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