5 Mar
2002
5 Mar
'02
8:40 a.m.
It escapes me why they ripped up the track in the
first place. The scrap
value of the steel couldn't have offset the cost of doing so and should you
ever change your mind there's no going back except with astronomical costs.
In the old days, when steel was worth something, it was very economical.
It may not seem like it, but every mile of mainline track has many tons
of high grade steel.
The 1990s glut of scrap steel changed all of this, however.
William Donzelli
aw288(a)osfn.org