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From: burton@fortune.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.railroad
Subject: Re: ALCO<->EMD<->GE - (nf)
Message-ID: <1912@fortune.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-Dec-83 15:19:38 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec  7 15:19:38 1983
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Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA
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To reply to the end of your very interesting news item, I am also an
ex-RRer, as follows:

I spent the first ten years of my professional life in the tranportation
field.  

for several years, I worked for the New York MTA ("the wholly [William] Ronan
empire"), and did planning for them.  That included all the subway lines and
the LIRR, the world's largest commuter system.

I also did several years as a transportation grad student at MIT, working
on their RR project for the FRA, on such matters as car cycle reliability
and freight car acquisition planning.

I did several years in transportation consulting for Stanford Research
Institute, as a followon to my grad work.

Last, I spent a summer in France as a "stagaire," literally, exchange student,
actually working for the French National RRs, ("la SNCF") at a loco repair
shop in the suburbs of Paris.  Tres con, ca.

I left the transportation business because consulting to the guv is too
uncertain, and is a poor payer besides.  When I made that decision, myy
wife was 6 months pregnant, and I had just been laid off from a consulting
firm (after SRI) only because a faceless bureaucrat cancelled our followon
contract.  No way to live.  

Now I'm in the super-stable computer business.

I'd like to read some other bios, and chat, esp. if you're in the Bay Area or
ex-East Coast.  (Miss those GG1s.)

                    Phil Burton
                    Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA  96065
                    415 595 8444 x526