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<p>[quote user="BroadwayLion"]</p> <p>It is a leftist plot to seize money from railroads...</p> <p></p> <p><em><span style="font-family:book antiqua,palatino;font-size:x-small;"><a href="/trn/f/111/t/218653/reply.aspx/Under%20reciprocal%20switching,%20a%20railroad,">Under reciprocal switching, a railroad,</a> for a fee, switches carload freight to another railroad to give a captive shipper access to facilities it might not otherwise reach. The switching charges are paid by the receiving railroad. The customer pays the originating railroad, which would build the switching fee, and perhaps an additional amount, into its overall charges to compensate it for the revenue foregone by switching the traffic to its rival for carriage.</span></em></p> <p><em><span style="font-family:book antiqua,palatino;font-size:x-small;">The NITL proposal would allow a captive shipper or receiver to gain access to a second rail carrier if the customer's facility is located within a 30-mile radius of an interchange where regular switching occurs. Only true captive customers—defined by NITL as a business with no alternatives from other railroads or other modes— could qualify. The switch would not occur if the affected railroad could prove the practice would be unsafe or is unfeasible or harmful to existing rail service, the shipper group said."</span></em></p> <p><em><span style="font-family:book antiqua,palatino;font-size:x-small;"><br /></span></em></p> <p><span style="font-family:book antiqua,palatino;font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Or you could say that it is a rightist plot to mulct more money from a shipper who does not have access to a different railroad company.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:book antiqua,palatino;font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-family:book antiqua,palatino;font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Politics not allowed, no opinions given. Same arguments between nobles and serfs have been going on for 3000 years. If you expect us to stop arguing now you are not living in the real world.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:book antiqua,palatino;font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></span><em><span style="font-family:book antiqua,palatino;font-size:x-small;">ROAR </span></em>[/quote]</p> <p>Thanks! I like your postings; they are informative, and they contain just the right amount of levity. Keep it up. If it ever stops snowing in the Dakotas, I may visit your part of the country.</p>
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