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Railroaders' Nostalgia > Mad Dog Chronicle # 176: The Western Division Project.Date: 08/20/06 08:06 Mad Dog Chronicle # 176: The Western Division Project. Author: mdo One of the Western Division's special initiatives in 1980 was known as the Western Division Project. I have included the cover, table of contents, and five of the first six pages.
(I left out page 5, a table which just restates page 4 in graph form) This should all be fairly self explanitory. However, I will tell you more about it in MDC # 177. 8/20/06 mdo    Date: 08/20/06 08:08 Re: Mad Dog Chronicle # 176: The Western Division Proj Author: mdo the next three pages:
   Date: 08/20/06 08:58 Re: Mad Dog Chronicle # 176: The Western Division Proj Author: mdo For those of you with short memories, here are some of the older Chronicles which delt with The Western Division Project and the earlier McKinsey Study in Houston.
http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,1126043,1126073#msg-1126073 http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,1119307,1120142#msg-1120142 http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,1024046,1024046#msg-1024046 http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,1007582,1007582#msg-1007582 http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,978383,978383#msg-978383 mdo Date: 08/20/06 09:22 Re: Mad Dog Chronicle # 176: The Western Division Proj Author: ts1457 1980 - post-Staggers.
Before deregulation, those rate increases would have taken a lot longer to achieve, if at all. Many members of Trainorders find it hard to believe that deregulation was so pivotal in saving private enterprise railroading in the US. Thanks for a great example of how railroads were finally able to function as businesses. Date: 08/21/06 00:16 Re: Mad Dog Chronicle # 176: The Western Division Proj Author: topper How many total pages? Can you scan and post some more?
Date: 08/21/06 08:00 Re: Mad Dog Chronicle # 176: The Western Division Proj Author: mdo topper Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > How many total pages? Can you scan and post some > more? There are 23 pages in the results and recommendations summary alone. The entire Western Division Report is three inches thick. The NWP report is almost two inches thick in addition. What do you want to see Date: 08/21/06 08:24 Re: Mad Dog Chronicle # 176: The Western Division Proj Author: mdo Here are pages 7, 8, and 9 of the Results and Recommendations.
Note on page 7 the declines in Transportation Equipment and in Lumber and Food. Note on page 8 that Lumber has a negative contribution.    Date: 08/21/06 13:49 Re: Mad Dog Chronicle # 176: The Western Division Proj Author: topper mdo Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > What do you want to see The stuff pertaining to the analysis of customers in the Oakland area, and the recommendations for job changes, I guess. Date: 08/21/06 17:14 Re: Mad Dog Chronicle # 176: The Western Division Proj Author: Chief409 I noticed that a Andy Anderson was a team member. Is this the Andy Anderson who just retired as a IT analyst in Omaha?
Chief409 Date: 08/23/06 01:58 Re: Mad Dog Chronicle # 176: The Western Division Proj Author: bobwilcox The Andy Anderson who worked on this report retired about 1998. At that time he planned to live near Omaha.
Date: 12/14/19 19:23 Re: Mad Dog Chronicle # 176: The Western Division Proj Author: Westbound Although not a lot of responses to this thread it is interesting to see there have been 1,893 views.
Thanks Mike Date: 12/15/19 10:02 Re: Mad Dog Chronicle # 176: The Western Division Proj Author: WAF Why didn't the SP take over the operation to Betteravia?
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