Norfolk Southern History

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Yes, the UP steam engines are oil fired.

Nelson Burks

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>A little question to the writer who went on UP's Frontier Days. He said

>there was nothing like getting coal dust in his face. Doesn't the UP steam

>program use OIL? The reason I say this is due to the UP steam engine that

>was renumbered for the Clinchfield one year for the Santa Train. Don Mills

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>>I don't remember which magazine had an interview with Mr. Lee, who ran

>>UP's Steam program at the time but Mr. Lee stated that he had to justify

>>the expenditures for the steam program. It isn't carte blanche. If the

>>steam program didn't benefit UP from a business point of view it wouldn't

>>exist. I live in Albuquerque and every summer I take my grandson on UP's

>>Frontier Days Steam excursion from Denver to Cheyenne and back. Nothing

>>like getting coal ash in your face. There are over seven hundred seats

>>available at a minimum of $325.00 per seat with dome cars costing about

>>$375.00 and that doesn't even come close to what it costs UP to put on

>>that shindig. Repeat riders get first dibs, but still all the seats are

>>sold out within two hours of being made available to the general public.

>>Also remember who got the US Government to put a hold on CN from grabbing

>>up a number of small U.S. RRs.........NS.

>> John Lisica #2073

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>>> NW Mailing List wrote:

>>> > Many of my dealings with Norfolk Southern show me that they are

>>> interested in history. They often support our historic organizations.

>>>

>>> Not to be too cynical about it, but I have trouble believing that

>>> Norfolk Southern cares about ANYTHING other than the bottom line and

>>> quarterly dividends for the shareholders. If they are supporting

>>> historic organizations, it is because it's a great way to make the

>>> bottom line look good at the end of the quarter. They made low interest

>>> loans available to employees who lost their homes in the Atlanta floods.

>>> Was that corporate goodwill, or trying to keep from having to re-hire

>>> and re-train to replace employees who had no place to live? Being

>>> "good" can often be profitable - it's still good, but the motive is less

>>> so, and deplorable when the result is presented to the world as

>>> charitable.

>>>

>>> By contrast, Union Pacific makes an effort to display, share, and take

>>> pride in its own heritage. I'm sure it costs money, but I think the

>>> public, and definitely the model railroad and railfan communities,

>>> appreciate the heritage paint schemes and active steam program. I

>>> cannot comment as an insider there, as I can for NS, but I get the

>>> impression that they value their image in the world, and actually do

>>> care about their own history.

>>> --

>>> Kenneth Rickman - krickman1 at carolina.rr.com

>>> Salisbury, NC

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