Heartland Corridor

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Michael,

 

You are making a number of declarative statements for which I see no hard
(or even soft) supporting data. 

Where's the evidence that "raising the portal hole (without reboring the
tunnel) couldn't have cost all that much more"?

I trust the judgment of people who know what that number is more than
someone's mere supposition.

Secondly, do you really think that container shippers in the orient really
give a fig about the esthetics of US railroad tunnels? 

Thirdly, what is a "semi-bottom line"?

 

Dave Lambert

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We are still not over the Gulf Oil spill, which happened largely due to an
overdeveloped sense of money savings.  Many accidents in history are due to
cost savings and too much attention to the semi-bottom line without regard
to the real costs.  Save money at any cost will bite business in the long
run.

All I am saying is that raising the portal hole (without reboring the
tunnel) couldn't have cost all that much more and would have proved a regard
for history and for other items that people would look at and say I want to
ship on this railway.  They care for their stuff, they will care for my
stuff.  It would have been good PR.  It would have upheld the corporate
image in a very real way.  Everybody knows cost, few seem to care about
value.

Michael Shockley

 

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