From: stephen@sprunk.org

On 08-Apr-14 18:13, Sancho Panza wrote:
> On 4/8/2014 7:04 PM, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
>> On 08-Apr-14 16:18, Sancho Panza wrote:
>>> On 4/8/2014 3:04 PM, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
>>>> It's trains running on your beloved _freight_ network that lose
>>>> enormous
>>>> amounts of money, almost entirely due to lack of capital investment,
>>>> which hurts both passenger _and_ freight service.
>>>>
>>> On the contrary, Union Pacific stock has been quite a strong performer
>>> for the last several years, and Burlington Northern has not been one of
>>> Berkshire Hathaway's shabbier contributors, either.
>>
>> They don't run passenger trains, except under contracts where they're
>> guaranteed to turn a profit regardless of performance.
>>
> No one said they did. The response was your assertion about losing money
> on the freight network, which is overwhelmingly involved in moving freight.

That I was referring to passenger trains was obvious, at least until you
snipped the context so you could deliberately misinterpret it.

S

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