Tuesday, January 27, 2015

On those Government-Backed Railroads of the 19th Century Laying Tracks on Ice, Only to Have to Rip The Suckers Up in the Spring and Start All Over

Par for the course when you're spending other people's money.

1 comment:

BB-Idaho said...

Grenville Dodge was a trained civil engineer. Whatever Wall
Street crap he got caught up in
was the result of high flying
private enterprise. His engineering knowhow resulted in,
among many other things, the world's largest railroad yard at
North Platte, NE. Where, these days 300 million tons of freight
(including 255 million tons of coal) moves each year and 8,500 locomotives are fueled and serviced monthly. Prescient...or
lucky?