Heartland Corridor Project

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I don't agree.  I think NS is doing what they should be doing as a
business.  The tunnels needed to be altered because of change s in the NS
traffic mix.  Also NS has done a great deal of preservation.  Consider all
of what NS has donated to our archives and the space they let us use in the
GOB in Roanoke.  If they weren't a successful railroad do you think they
would do these things for the N&WHS!

John Rhodes

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:14 PM, NW Mailing List
<nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>wrote:


> Mike,

>

> I totally agree with what you say about the way the tunnels have been

> altered. I guess this is what photographs, movie films and memories are for.

> As you say the railroads, and in our case NS, are run as businesses and must

> be in a constant drive to improve, streamline, review, grow and so on and so

> forth.

>

> Yes the corridor project is radically altering the look and aesthetics of

> the tunnels in question but there are other tunnels around the US especially

> abandoned ones which remain unaltered. It's just unfortunate that some of

> the 19th and early 20th century engineering works were so impressive and

> memorable that they have become something special in their own right and not

> just part of a transportation system built by businessmen to make a return

> on their investors' money.

>

> Best regards,

>

> Cameron Tyre

>

> NS shareholder

>

> Sent from my Norfolk Southern ThoroughbredBerry on O2-UK

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