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Freight railroads generally have operated the same way for more than a century: They wait for cargo and leave when customers are ready. Now railroads want to run more like commercial airlines, where departure times are set. Factories, farms, mines or mills need to be ready or miss their trips.
Called "precision-scheduled railroading," or PSR, this new concept is cascading through the industry. Under pressure from Wall Street to improve performance, Norfolk Southern and other large U.S. freight carriers, including Union Pacific Corp. and Kansas City Southern, are trying to revamp their networks to use fewer trains and hold them to tighter schedules. The moves have sparked a stock rally that has added tens of billions of dollars to railroad values in the past six months as investors anticipate lower costs and higher profits.
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday April 05 2019, @02:56PM (2 children)
I have to consider this thought for a moment. Maybe it is better that these people "darwin award" themselves. The very way they rush, drive wreckfully, without regard to their own or others' safety is why they get hit by a train. How in the world does a car, with plenty of warning, and a loud train horn, get hit by a slow moving train? Because they just don't care. These would probably be the same people who tailgate. Who cut other people off in traffic. Who believe that they and only they have a God given right to drive in the carpool lane, or in the road shoulder in order to get ahead of everyone else. Because they are important. And probably self entitled.
And I was not trying to describe only BMW, Audi, Mercedes, and Lexis drivers.
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(Score: 4, Informative) by JoeMerchant on Friday April 05 2019, @03:23PM (1 child)
Unfortunately, I don't think it's genes (nature) so much as learned behavior (nurture), so the real solution would be to correct the system that let them grow up stupid - because as long as that exists, new idiots will continue to replace them.
I do feel like we hand out the driving privilege far too easily, and take it away far too late to avoid endangering others. But, even idiots without cars can kill themselves on train tracks - fortunately they do less collateral damage that way.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 05 2019, @11:17PM
Like cheetos, idiots are cheap. Thanks to unskilled labor, more will me made to replace the less successful specimens.