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[quote user="AntonioFP45"]<p>Wow! Wasn't that a former Union Pacific line?</p><p>Seems more and more that we're reading articles that indicate that a number of rail line abandonments that occured during the 80s and early 90s may have been hasty decisions indeed with a lack of long term thinking. (wait a minute, that sounds like CSX!)</p><p>The old saying: Once you lose it....you don't get it back! ( Unless you're willing to fork over millions of dollars </p><p>[/quote]</p><p>Former Rio Grande.</p><p>I don't know where you are getting this idea that abandonments at this time or any other time were hasty (except from some of the opinions on this forum?), but regardless how one defines hasty this one is nothing like that. The Marysville Branch was badly damaged by washouts and mudslides contemporaneous with the Thistle Mudslide in 1983. The state of Utah and the counties decided they didn't want to cough up any cash to fix it, or buy it and railbank it. The traffic on the line then and in the forseeable future wouldn't pay to fix the damage. The railroad didn't think it should be a charity. The abandonment petition was approved by the ICC. I suppose you could blame the public and its leaders, but we're the public and we elect our leaders freely. So ... we're short-sighted and foolish. </p><p>S. Hadid </p>
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