source, the service system, the arrival and service patterns, and the priorities used for controlling the line. Letâs ï¬rst look at the primary input into the waiting line system: the customers. The Customer Population The customer population can be considered to be ï¬nite or inï¬nite. When potential
As a result of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, railroad companies lost millions of dollars because without the workers to maintain the tracks, operate the cars, etc. The trains could not function, which meant that people could not ride them. Comments.
The Central Pacific did not keep records of the deaths of any workers on the railroad. Some historians estimate from engineering reports, newspaper articles and other sources that between 50 to 150 Chinese were killed as a result of snow slides, landslides, explosions, falls and other accidents.