Brooks Bentz-look him up on your Google.
And you are living in a dream world if you think what the "Wall Mart slobs" think means jack squat. These people will be told what to think. I myself am thinking that the longterm outlook for employment on this here railroad is looking grim.
When I got into the business in 1970, there were about 1 million people in it. But today, the railroads are handling more gross ton-miles annually than they ever did before, and with about 125,000 to 135,000 people. That is a good thing.
What is the challenge now?
The challenge is that having had a huge gain through engine enhancement, large-to-small crews, increased car size, stack cars (as against the old days of circus ramping up to the cars), what do you do next? You can go from a two-man crew to a one-man crew or a no-man crew, and that will be a gain in productivity. But it can’t be 100%, and it is not the big gain of the recent past. The gains will be more incremental.