powerpro69 wrote:OK, so I'm only a CIT with 3 months under my belt, but I just seem to get the impression that The Railroad isn't about moving trains anymore!
You are absolutely right, though. The railroad isn't about moving trains, anymore. Railroads were chartered, to move people and freight, sometimes at great financial losses, to keep towns "alive". Safety is the buzzword, but the real business the carriers are in now, is generation of dividends. The stockholders must be appeased, at any and all costs. Movement of trains becomes secondary, when the people running the railroad, are fixated on cost controls, and maximizing shareholder profits. A far, far cry, from what railroads were chartered, and built, to do. Time was, when profits were only a bonus, and connecting places, and people, were the only priorities.