[AT] Rail cars.

[Richard Fink Sr]

In this area coal, steel, railroads,coal strip mines,
R Fink



At 09:10 AM 2/23/2008 -0500, you wrote:


>It is my recollection from childhood when the railroads were strong that:
>
>A lot of contention  existed between the rail 
>companies and the unions over crew size.  Unions 
>still would not give up the coal man (fireman?) 
>position on trains in spite of steam engines 
>being gone.  Even with a coal man, I seem to 
>recall an entire freight train ran with a three 
>man grew.  The companies wanted it to be two. 
>This was probably a pretty small chip in the big poker game.
>
>My recollection from conversations I heard 
>boiled down to typical corporate greed.   For 
>many of the good railroad years, the rail 
>companies moved much of the profit to other 
>places and did not invest back into their own 
>systems.  Lines became poorly maintained and 
>derailments occurred too often.  Advances in 
>methods did not happen to keep the systems 
>current with the times. Delivery times were 
>greatly extended and not reliable. Meanwhile, 
>the trucks kept rolling, and getting bigger and 
>better. The rail system reached a point of no 
>return.  I think the only reason the remaining 
>system survived is because of U.S government 
>bailout dollars poured in to save part of a 
>vital system.  In a nutshell, greed and 
>mismanagement. How many times and in how many 
>industries have we seen this same situation??
>
>Charlie
>
>
>
> > From: pwaugh at embarqmail.com
> > To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
> > Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:09:43 -0500
> > Subject: Re: [AT] Rail cars.
> >
> > So why did they go away??? ... Labor too high??? .. they have darn good
> > retirement (RR)
> >
> > Paul Waugh
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Irma Brown" <bellville1 at gmail.com>
> > To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> > Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 10:53 PM
> > Subject: [AT] Rail cars.
> >
> >
> > >I sure do agree with the fact it would e wise to get the rail cars back to
> > > hauling freight and cut down the trucks 
> that are running. . It seems that
> > > in
> > > our country as soon as we get something that works we have to up and
> > > change
> > > it. Sometimes not for the better. Just my two cents.
> > >
> > > Irma
> > > Western, KY
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