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Thu Aug 19 13:01:39 EDT 2010


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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