From: stephen@sprunk.org   
      
   On 08-Apr-14 18:42, Sancho Panza wrote:   
   > On 4/8/2014 7:30 PM, Stephen Sprunk wrote:   
   >> On 08-Apr-14 18:13, Sancho Panza wrote:   
   >>> On 4/8/2014 7:04 PM, Stephen Sprunk wrote:   
   >>>> On 08-Apr-14 16:18, Sancho Panza wrote:   
   >>>>> 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.   
   >>   
   >> That I was referring to passenger trains was obvious, at least   
   >> until you snipped the context so you could deliberately   
   >> misinterpret it.   
   >   
   > And that ties together strong financial performance with "lack of   
   > capital investment" how?   
      
   Financial performance is poor without capital investment; that was the   
   entire point of what I wrote, which you'd know if you actually read it   
   rather than snipping the parts that don't agree with your anti-rail   
   trolling obsession:   
      
   >>>>>> Investing in more/faster track pays for itself because you   
   >>>>>> spread your (mostly fixed) expenses over more passengers   
   >>>>>> paying higher fares.   
      
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