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Dear Mr H. Jampton, To some extent, what you're saying may be true. YET...there's not one airline company or manufacturer that, with their own resources, built an airport or their own terminal building for the purpose of transporting people or freight. They may pay a landing fee, slot fee, whatever fees these airport authorities may require them to pay, but, when it comes down to building these air facilities, it's largely from tax dollars(my tax dollars)and bond offerings. Not one car or truck manufacturer built any length of major highways connecting the major cities in the US. Any highway construction is made with tax dollars mostly. All forms of transportation pay into this fuel fund or fuel tax, BUT, the railroads get roughly 2% of any outlays from the Department of Transportation. The only form of transportation in the US that gets less than the railroads are the waterways. So you can imagine what kind of shape our inland or coastal water passages are in. For all the good and the bad in this, the rail industry, it's the one form of transportation that has built and expanded these United States the fastest, as it has done in some other parts of the world. You can't move large amount of people or freight in a car, bus or airplane. The only form of transport that beats the railroads are some barges and ocean going ships. We have been treated like abandoned children, even by some of our own executives within these companies. All forms of transportation have their purpose, but it seem like the railroads just get the scraps from that government plate. Glenn A R E A L RAILROADER...A TRUE AMERICAN!!!!
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