Heartland Corridor

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The thing for all you guys to ask yourselves is what you  would do if it was YOUR money.  We have Monday Morning Quarterbacks in all fields who are critical as heck of the people who make financial decisions, but none of these people want to consider what they would do if it was their money.  People tend to be liberal with other people's money, and conservative with their own.  

EdKing


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Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 1:01 PM
To: NW Mailing List 
Subject: Re: Heartland Corridor


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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