Posted on 01/08/08
A new challenge, but the same old mistakes
OTTAWA -- U.S. railway magnate Thomas Clark Durant used to take congressmen and high-level bureaucrats to lunch. When building the Union Pacific railway in the 1860s, for example, he once took 150 of them halfway across the continent by train to show off the progress he was making.
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