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Re: [BRHSlist] Burlington respect

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Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Burlington respect
From: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@y...>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 19:08:24 -0700 (PDT)
In-reply-to: <04e601c2538c$dbb08220$edf20a3f@c...>
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I know I will stir up a hornet's nest with this! But,
if we are talking about able managers, don't be too
hard on Lou Menk. I am like most of you, in that I
hated what he did with passenger trains, 4960, 5632,
etc. He was a good businessman by most measures. Let's
be fair. The stockholders liked him, even if employees
and railfans didn't. Is this hersey or what?
John D. Mitchell, Jr.
--- Marshall Thayer <zephyr9903@e...> wrote:
> > I think the innovative culture resulted, right
> from the early years, from 
> customer focus. <
> 
> Also, there is the fact that drom Charles Perkins to
> Harry Murphy (with the exception of a few short-term
> caretakers), Q presidents had been carefully
> mentored from early in their careers. The fact that
> Ralph Budd was mentored by J. J. Hill doesn't change
> that, since the Q was more tightly knit into the
> Hill system in those days.
> 
> And when they changed it, we got Louie Menk <sigh> .
> . .
> 
> Marshall
> 
> BTW - the Q first experimented with internal
> combustion freight service in 1933 with the little
> Porter gas-electric #111, between Keokuk & Mt.
> Pleasant. Although the Dan Patch had been all
> internal combustion in the 'teens and the NYC had
> put the 1550 into service on the Putnam division in
> 1930, this was probably the first try by a major RR
> in the Midwest.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been
> removed]
> 
> 


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