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 widespread labor violence that threatened, by 1890, to spin out of control had exploded onto the national scene in 1877 with a railroad strike that crippled transportation throughout the northeast. There had been strikes before in Americaâbut nothing that matched the scope and violence of this one.