I've long said that while Guilford has always been demonized and is a favorite whipping boy of almost everyone... they really weren't doing anything worse in those "terrible days"in the 80s when they "caused" (umm.. labor strikes on their own, management doesn't tell them to...) those crippling strikes (that caused such huge impacts that New England railroading has never fully recovered), than what every other regional or class I has done over the 20+/- years since. Frankly I can't blame them too much just because they happened to be the only ones with the jewels to try to be the first ones to pull it off.
Not that I don't sympathize with labor... but for better or worse, times change, the economy evolves, technology marches on, and so to do we all.
