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HI KEVIN I thought you were probably rr work are had relations that did I knew a comm mtr that worked for kcs in heaviner ok. (may spelled town wrong) I worked three summers on the section line myself 61-63.
then started in fall of 64 working line gang this turned into a maintainer job in 66 . worked for the CRI&P (ROCK ISLAND) until it went bankrupt
3/31/80. 10,000 of us lot our jobs, some were hired under bankruptcy reorganization that 14 rr signed on to I dont remember if KCS was one of them you may. any way 15 mo later got a rr job in kck with Southern Pacific. I NOT SURE when RI passenger shut down but remember riding out of okc on the santafe to chicago that was in 1971. I KNOW I need to keep this to (chl disscussion ) was in kck 10 years then came to tyler in fall of 90. UPRR took SSW and SP over 11/96. I retired 2/02 with UP was quite a up and down ride. we need to talk via e-mail could talk shooting and RR
DO you know don lynch in texarakana with UP.

I know having been in the rr enviroment for 40 years , I have ridden many of the fine and great passangers in my time . I can remember around the late sixty or early seventy the us mail traveled on the passengers . the federal gov, did and would fine the various rr co. if the us mail was late and that could result in we are talking millions back then that was still a lot of money. so believe it or not the rr slowly but surely let the trucking industry take over , passengers began to allow many things to start happening people started to take different modes of transportation. rr industries knew they could target the various industries that could and still do ship freight oh yes the trucking co. fight this but dollar for dollar the rail freight still has came out of top year after year. there or not that many rr co . to date BNSF,UP,CONRAIL (GOV.RUN) there are still a few short lines that runs what we called locals ,but guess who owns these?