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To: mrsmith

I was born and raised in a mountain coal town that used to have one of the biggest rail yards on the East Coast (Western Maryland - Cumberland, specifically). Rail has been declining for years. The yard was usually full of cars (a lot of B&O, C&O, and Chessie interests in the region), and it slowly whithered. Department closures, shops cutting back, furloughs. In fact, just two years ago this May, they laid off a hundred workers from the locomotive repair shop after their jobs were eliminated. They said the shop manager called then aside as they came in, directed them into a meeting room, and were told their jobs were gone. They got escorted to their lockers by security like common criminals, packed their belongings, and were escorted back out the gate. None of it has to do with COVID-19, Obama, Trump, or anything else. The industry has just been shrinking for a long time.


9 posted on 05/15/2020 8:03:18 PM PDT by Viking2002 (Why should I walk into the great unknown, when I can sit here, and throw my bones?)
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To: Viking2002

All true but...
Obama cracked down on coal regs at the very time gas was cheaper.
Should have ‘cushioned’ the blow to coal- that’e the fed’s role -but did the opposite: they exacerbated it.

Things change, but they can change gradually.


11 posted on 05/15/2020 8:15:24 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts (M / F) : Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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