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If John Deere still is as was tradition, tractors are made in Waterloo, IA and combines Moline, IL.
Hauling passengers for hire has largely depended on subsidy since the demise of the stage coach. Mail, express, fuel taxes and other taxes for roads, the F. A. A., the list goes on. How many public resources do you direct where for what number and clientele of passenger. Is the passenger rail subsidy better spent expanding conventional speed rail? It serves intermediate points high speed rail and air do not. Do you open new routes? Do you expand service on existing routes. If doing so creates a greater
Examine old time tables. The limited did not stop for the milk and an occasional farm wife going shopping in Chicago. It stopped only at larger points, or if operations dictated for crew change, fuel, service. Dwell time at terminals kills speed quicker than anything. Chicago to Omaha as some now propose via Des Moines, do you stop at every county seat? Do you mix slower speed locals into the mix? Will sufficient business be generated and deposited at larger hubs to make it feasible?
Whatever happened to room temperature, super conductivity? There was a break through 20 years ago allowing it to be achieved under liquid nitrogen instead of liquid helium. Unlike a battery, power in and power out with no chemical reaction. The efficiency achieved was supposed to be impressive. The prophets has us driving electric cars with super conductive gas tanks by 2010. That has not happened. If Buck Rogers ever delivers, would this technology be applicable to railroads? Could The coal tender
Like the barons of a century ago, is a private railroad car in the offing for the owner?
The prophecies given as why to buy may stand a better chance of coming true. Money is power and with the money to buy BNSF, decision makers do not dismiss what the new owner advocates.
How much pre-blocking is done by BNSF in Galesburg to expedite interchange at Chicago? Which route to Chicago (CB&Q or ATSF) for what partners? Is there a financial incentive for carriers to sort before delivering interchange at the point of hand off?
What about a Peoria & Oquawka heritage locomotive? It would be an open palate paint scheme for a diesel.
If the rail connection still existed, would it be viable, or up for abandonment?