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Re: how bad are the answersfor the initial question
Author: Efficiency Expert Sigma Bob
Date: 12-30-2021 - 22:50
OneMarketPlaza Wrote:
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> Norden Norton Wrote:
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> > FullertonDave Wrote:
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> > > Back in the late 1960's SP had 5 rotaries
> > stationed in Roseville and 2 in Sparks.
> >
> > That was back in the "old days" when they ran a
> > lot of trains over Donner Pass. Times have
> > changed. There's not nearly the amount of rail
> > traffic running on the Overland and Feather
> River
> > routes as there used to be. Remember the "Ford
> > Fast"? That was when we had automobile
> assembly
> > plants. Remember the "Salad Bowl Express"?
> That
> > was when the railroads were interested in
> hauling
> > perishables. I could go on.
> >
> > [youtu.be]
> >
> > The Overland Route is covered at the 29:52
> mark.
>
> The rotaries are relics of the past and expensive
> for the railroad to operate - especially with
> their own employees, many of whom are nothing but
> useless "feather-bedders." They should be removed
> and scrapped, and non-union contractors with their
> own equipment brought in.
I get a chuckle out of your trolling, OneMarket. I laughed as I read your comment. But seriously, I reckon featherbedding went away with the caboose, and staffing has been cut, maybe drastically, in the crafts along with “PSR”. But your idea of contracting out the rotary snow plowing is one to ponder. Don’t give management the idea or they might take it.
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> Norden Norton Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > FullertonDave Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > Back in the late 1960's SP had 5 rotaries
> > stationed in Roseville and 2 in Sparks.
> >
> > That was back in the "old days" when they ran a
> > lot of trains over Donner Pass. Times have
> > changed. There's not nearly the amount of rail
> > traffic running on the Overland and Feather
> River
> > routes as there used to be. Remember the "Ford
> > Fast"? That was when we had automobile
> assembly
> > plants. Remember the "Salad Bowl Express"?
> That
> > was when the railroads were interested in
> hauling
> > perishables. I could go on.
> >
> > [youtu.be]
> >
> > The Overland Route is covered at the 29:52
> mark.
>
> The rotaries are relics of the past and expensive
> for the railroad to operate - especially with
> their own employees, many of whom are nothing but
> useless "feather-bedders." They should be removed
> and scrapped, and non-union contractors with their
> own equipment brought in.
I get a chuckle out of your trolling, OneMarket. I laughed as I read your comment. But seriously, I reckon featherbedding went away with the caboose, and staffing has been cut, maybe drastically, in the crafts along with “PSR”. But your idea of contracting out the rotary snow plowing is one to ponder. Don’t give management the idea or they might take it.
