... has gotten stronger and we've had a couple fuel price spikes and are at a higher plateau, of course, than at the turn of the century. Saunders spends the first chapter summarizing his earlier book, _Merging Lines_, which I'm having some trouble laying hands on. Maybe I don't need to get it since it is summarized here; difficult to say with certainty. Saunders is a bit chatty for an academic ...
Pennsylvania Central's ill-managed merger and subsequent reorganization through bankruptcy led to tales of lost cars and lost trains, because the components had no plan going into it regarding which component's yards should receive what (the result -- shippers used whatever was handy, and paperwork got separated from the goods, and yards just put the unknowns together and sent them to some other ...
p 129 of _Main Lines_: In Britain, Freightliner "had a cost edge over highway for any movement over 150 miles, and had the edge for shorter hauls when available roads were especially congested, as between London and Southampton. BR contemplated shifting all residual carload freight to Freighliner and abandoning classification yards." It would perhaps have been clear to state the cost/benefit in ...
p 98-9 in _Main Lines_: "But Chessie and the N&W were vague on what they would do and very clear on what they would not do. They were not willing to provide any service east of a line between Albany and Harrisburg, what N&W's Jack Fishwick dubbed the "firewall." East of the firewall, they said, lay nothing but trouble -- complex terminal trackage, short freight hauls, aging ports dominated by ...
There's no entry in the index under "depreciation" or "accounting". The book is Saunders' _Main Lines_, and in Chapter 1 he is recapping his previous book (which I haven't yet been able to lay hands on), _Merging Lines_. Specifically, he is talking about the downfall of Penn Central, itself the result of a merger between two troubled railroads, ...
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Hi to all! Been hanging around this comm for a few weeks since I discovered Lie To Me (I'm in the UK) and fell for my shiny, new fandom! :D So now I'm de-lurking with my first Lie To Me fanvid, it's kinda short but I hope you all like it! Title: Lines Pairing: Cal/Gillian Song: In My Place - Coldplay Disclaimer: Neither the song nor the show is mine. Size: 19.2 MB Link: Rapidshare...