From: otterpower@xhotmail.com

On 4/8/2014 7:30 PM, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
> 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.

And that ties together strong financial performance with "lack of
capital investment" how?

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