December 01, 2021 10:52AM
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Sharrod Wrote:
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> Everybody keeps saying the DRGW was spending
> excessive money on MOW to force abandonment, but
> all the photos I see show a hundred miles of weed
> overgrown track with sixty year old rail. Sorry, I
> don't buy that "excessive maintenance" argument.
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Excessive in terms of the minimum necessary to keep running a line everyone "knew" would soon be abandoned. And while the line seemed weed grown in its final days ("through the weeds not around them" as Andy Payne quipped) in fact surface and line were pretty good because it had to be to avoid problems with the relatively long trains they ran. Plus if a railroad cut back too much on maintenance in anticipation of abandonment, it would be accused of discouraging traffic and not meeting its legal obligations, which woud give the ICC a reason to deny abandonment. The DRGW ng. was never a streak of rust like the RGS. I was a cost analyst with the SP and testified at abandonment hearings, and while I was not privy to the innermost thinking of top management the game was clear. Top management was trying to run a business, but the abandonment process was run by politicians on the ICC and lawyers for the railroad, Fritz Klinke reported seeing all kinds of new ties scattered along the line after abandonment that had never been inserted, but most likely had been charged to the cost of maintenane. The abandonment game was historically important because its lack of economic rationality was one of the primary drivers of the railroad bankruptcies in the post WW2 era that led up the dereg under Staggers Act and the current structure of the rail industry. Sorry for the long winded response but this was some history that I was a part of.
JBWX
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