steamtrain6868
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http://www.bloomberg...-rail-plan.html
"I'm a corporation. I exist to make money, OK? You can't make money hauling passengers, so why would I want to do that? That wouldn't be fair to my shareholders."
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Norfolk Southern CEO Wick Moorman, while raising a concern about profitability and track congestion, told virginiabusiness.com last year, "We are happy to talk about running passenger trains anywhere on Norfolk Southern."
At BNSF, CEO Matt Rose told the Austin Economic Club in 2009 that investment in high-speed passenger trains is "an investment our society ought to make." Rose told a Railway Age magazine conference on passenger trains operating over freight railroad tracks that BNSF "is proud of its relationship" with the passenger services it either hosts or operates, and that new and expanded passenger rail, including high speed, is essential for economic, mobility, safety, and environmental reasons.
"I'm a corporation. I exist to make money, OK? You can't make money hauling passengers, so why would I want to do that? That wouldn't be fair to my shareholders."
VS.
Norfolk Southern CEO Wick Moorman, while raising a concern about profitability and track congestion, told virginiabusiness.com last year, "We are happy to talk about running passenger trains anywhere on Norfolk Southern."
At BNSF, CEO Matt Rose told the Austin Economic Club in 2009 that investment in high-speed passenger trains is "an investment our society ought to make." Rose told a Railway Age magazine conference on passenger trains operating over freight railroad tracks that BNSF "is proud of its relationship" with the passenger services it either hosts or operates, and that new and expanded passenger rail, including high speed, is essential for economic, mobility, safety, and environmental reasons.
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