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Re: (erielack) Alco Farewell / Economy Changes
Engines and cabooses in brown?
Actually, I had wondered the same thing in the past. Remember John Kneiling who wrote columns in TRAINS. Didn't he, early on, suggest that the EL could be converted to solely intermodal ?
Tony
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From: "walter smith" <wsmith5957_@_yahoo.com>
To: "EL Mail List" <erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 9:35:09 PM
Subject: Re: (erielack) Alco Farewell / Economy Changes
U have a good point too, Paul.....I think of the artcles on the EL relation
with UPS trains. I wonder if the UPS could have commited to 'buying ' the EL
while the cutoff still existed. They'd have had their own RR NY to Chicago &
might have been able to pick up enuf xtra business to survive. I'm sur lots of
folks in the Southern tier would like to have 1 & 2 and 5 & 6 back even with
Amtrak.
Walt Smith
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From: "Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul)" <paul.tupaczewski_@_alcatel-lucent.com>
To: EL Mail List <erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Mon, December 13, 2010 11:35:37 AM
Subject: RE: (erielack) Alco Farewell / Economy Changes
> I think you made some good points. The good news in
> Youngstown is that the air is 25% cleaner. The bad news is
> that there are no jobs and the jobs that are left pay just a
> little more than minimum wage. I guess this is the "New
> Economy" or the "New Normal".
>
> Rick Fleischer
> Cortland, OH.
And since we're an economy driven now by foreign imports, today's railroads are
primarily transporting... containers... of goods from China across the US. Local
business? What's that?
Going back to the EL, in theory the EL could have survived as a primarily
intermodal long-hauler. It was already heading in that direction before CR. Not
to beat the proverbial dead horse, but had there been the proper "planetary
alignment of economic factors," there could still be a vibrant EL today.
Clearances for double-stacks? Not a problem, considering how the other "big
roads" today spend government dollars to improve their lines.
Ah well, such it is to dream....
- - Paul
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