Dick Dorn Wrote:
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> Moyers removal of two sections of double track in
> the snow removal zone was one of the best examples
> of a CEO over ruling his people in the field who
> said absolutely not. Moyers had no clue as to what
> he was doing with the removal. It looked good on
> paper and that's it. In short it has for sure
> reduced flexibility of operations and caused
> problems.
>
>
> Dick Dorn


Yeah, kind of like the Boeing 787. You save 1 million dollars, but it's costs 5 million dollars later to fix it, but that's someone else's problem. If you can't put numbers on a beancounter's speadsheet that shows how it benefits in the short-term bottom line, then it has no value.

Any chance the UP will ever put that track back in? I was in there area last year and saw the abandoned tunnel (#7, I think) and the abandoned track over the Chinese Wall and through the snowsheds. I knew they'd removed a second track, but I didn't realize the extend of it until being there.