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peercy@crhc.uiuc.edu (Mike Peercy) quotes:

    The worst railroads in America are in the West.  The worst railroads
    on the Pacific Coast are those operated by the Southern Pacific
    Company.  The worst railroad operated by the Southern Pacific Company
    is the Central Pacific.  It owes the government more millions of
    dollars than Leland Stanford has vanities; it will pay it fewer cents
    than Collis P. Huntington has virtues.  It has always been managed
    by rapacity tempered by incompetence.  Let Leland Stanford remove
    his dull face from the United States Senate and exert some of his
    boasted 'executive ability' disentangling the complexities in which
    his frankly brainless subordinates have involved the movements of
    his trains.
                                        Ambrose Bierce
                                        August 4, 1888


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