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 Message 2501 
 Peter Schleifer to nilknocgeo@earthlink.net 
 Re: more fuzzy math, was National FREIGH 
 11 Apr 14 08:14:20 
 
From: pschleif@speakeasy.org

On Tue, 8 Apr 2014 17:32:20 -0400, "conklin"
 wrote:

>
>"Sancho Panza"  wrote in message
>news:xIZ0v.30025$Fj3.14043@fx09.iad...
>> 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.
>>
>>
>
>I thought it was only the RDU budget Steve could not read.  Now we all know
>it is ALL budgets he gets reversed.

Stephen was obviously referring to the Amtrak trains which run on the
freight network, so it's you two who have reading comprehension
issues.
--
Peter Schleifer
"Ignorance is easy and you get it for free"

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