As the old year winds down and real news comes creeping at a much slower pace, journalists such as yours truly turn to standard yearend fare to fill up our assigned space. As 2008 creaks along to its final demise, I'd say it sure has brought momentous changes to our industry, our nation and our world. I'm not going to list all the dramatic changes occurring in the past year since you've lived through them just as I have. I'd rather look forward. So, with tongue planted firmly in cheek, I'd like to bring my bad-order crystal ball back from the shop and take a look at 2009.rnWhen CN learns Barrington, Ill., has to use various tricks to stretch its road salt supply to get through this winter, the railroad quickly ships some Canadian salt to the poor, distressed souls in northwest Illinois. The community leaders are so grateful that they issue a press release saying the foreign barbarian railroad, which is planning to lay waste the town and carry off the children on the EJ&E, may be just a little less heinous than they previously thought.
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