Earl Pitts Wrote:
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> JR Wrote:
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> > Thank you all for the feedback. Sounds like
> > another disaster in the making from another
> > non-expert from corporate America.
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> Oddly enough, Moyers began his railroad career on
> the IC, as a track department worker, then became
> a Roadmaster, then proved the truth of the Peter
> Principal by becoming a Division Supt., a lousy
> one at that. "Red" and his "Mississippi Mafia"
> cohorts wreaked all manner of calamities on the
> ICG long before he ever got into a position where
> he could single-track the Illinois mainline.
>
> He was a one-trick pony. All he ever knew was to
> tear out and scrap to provide a quick boost to
> earnings, then move on before the conseqences came
> home to roost. Planning or thinking ahead or using
> "what if?" as a strategy for planning for the
> future was totally unknown. He and his buds were
> determined that rail traffic was on an endless
> slide, there would never be any growth to worry
> about, so why not disinvest in the physical plant
> and make a lot of money quickly?
>
> He was out of his league when he was a Roadmaster.

He ripped out the second main between Memphis and NO to save IC money. Seems to be good at that sort of stuff :-(