Posted by Steve on 4/28/2009, 8:40 pm, in reply to "Re: Multiple CSX Ore Trains"
You're right. This area has refused to change. Look at GM. My dad use to say, "Whatever GM does the country follows." Now look where GM is. In a way the country is still following GM. THIS TIME BOTH ARE GOING RIGHT DOWN THE DRAIN!
--Previous Message--
: Take a deep breath, guys are just
: happy to see some decent rail
: traffic on a line that was once busy
: in its day. Anyways where is it
: written that anything in this world
: is ever guaranteed to stay the same?
: Nothing, everything keeps changing.
: As a matter of fact, commerce for a
: while now has been moving to the
: coastal areas because of the access
: to deep water shipping. The rust
: belt states are at a disadvantage
: because of this, but the ones that
: embrace change will recover from the
: hard times.
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: --Previous Message--
: IT MAYBE AN AWESOME SIGHT TO
: EVERYONE,
: BUT THE PEOPLE OF STEUBENVILLE &
: MINGO JUNCTION. ONCE THE ORE IS ALL
: SCOOPED UP & LOADED FOR SPARROWS
: POINT, THE RUSSIANS CAN START
: CUTTING UP THE BLAST FURNACE FOR
: SCRAP & SHIPPING IT EAST FOR
: MELT DOWN INTO SLABS. THUS
: ELIMINATING STEEL PRODUCTION IN THE
: OHIO VALLEY. THEN EVERYONE CAN
: CATCH THE SLAB TRAINS GOING TO MINGO
: FOR FINISHING TO ROLLS. I GUESS
: THESE WILL BE ANOTHER "AWESOME
: SIGHT" FOR THE NON-STEEL
: PEOPLE.
:
: --Previous Message--
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: C.T.;
: Remeber in 1981 when the N&W
: took the Wheeling-Pittsburgh ore
: contract off the P&LE for
: Monessen.
: The N&W put on quite a show
: running the Monessen ore.
: Sure gonna be quite out there when
: these current ore trains cease.
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