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Reply to "The Big Boy "4014" to be back on the rails, later this summer!"

@kgdjpubs posted:

You and I look at it as big money.  For a corporation like UP, it's pocket change--if that.  As someone explained to me once, on the level of a multi-billion dollar company like UP, the cost of the steam program is roughly 30 minutes of wages out of an entire year.  It's less than nothing.  It's simply down to whether they want  to spend it.

Pretty much true. If UP was in circumstances where they were slashing costs where this would matter, like revenue was way down, their profits were tanking, stock was tanking, then they would likely suspend the steam program, perhaps even drop it, but they would be doing that with a lot of costs. When times are going good, which right now I suspect is true with the UP given the amount of stuff being shipped and probably with the mad rush to try and get the supply chain rebuilt, it is not likely to be an issue with shareholders or stock analysts, it is prob merged in with the PR budget.  I am sure there are people inside UP that probably grumble about having a steam program at all, but they exist in all companies, same people who question community programs, charitable donations, paying for employees training, paying for coffee, etc.

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