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Ed, That's really sad. Being afraid of change is not good in this world. But I'm not really suprised. Just from reading "Trains" I can see that the railroads aren't very forward thinking. Even the trucking companies who are terrible at maintenance and capital improvements have started using GPS to keep tabs on the location of trucks. Metra is using GPS now too but because the system only uses GPS data, they can't tell what track a given train is on. I can see where they would want to farm out short haul stuff. I wonder if that will mean more or fewer jobs? Or would the jobs just migrate to the short lines? It seems like freight business has been growing. Is that growth mostly in short or long haul? Also, will mixed freight die out in favor of intermodal? If locomotives have evolved as far as they can, what about fuel cell technology? Also, I wonder if there would be any changes in freight operations in ROW maintenance was subsidized at the same level as highways and aviation? Be safe
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