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Are there any pictures posted anywhere of the tunnel portals post  
realignment?


Walter Gay
Grumpy ex-car knocker





On Aug 19, 2010, at 10:11 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:


> 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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