Re: Perlman's Legacy.

John,
You are, of course, correct about the need to take necessary business decisions, and how they are often hard to do, especially if you have emotional attachments to the people involved in the business. It's too bad that Mr. Perlman felt it necessary to destroy the heritage of the railroads that he mananaged. He went out of his way to make sure that no steam was preserved. They represented, in his mind, the backward age that he was so opposed to. It's also too bad that "it's only business" became the standard response to any business move that denied the history and or humanity of the enterprise. I'm reminded of the Dilbert cartoon where the pointy haired boss announces that "Contrary to our previous statements, people aren't our most important asset, they're number seven!" (I'm doing this from memory, so probably have the actual ranking wrong!)