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Ptt100, It is not that "maybe in some cases" that went too far in track reduction it is that in some cases THEY DID GO TOO FAR in track reduction. The track capacity problem is one of the five topics in all the trade mags such as Railway Age and Progressive Railroading. To be fair they they under the assumption that they were dying industry twenty years ago. But now that the intermodal revolution is now upon them in full swing after years of empty promises. The RR's don"t have the track capacity to absorb all the new business. Intermodal trains are fast like the old fleet of passenger train the RR's used to run. These trains don't use up yard capacity they use up track capacity, witness UP's problems on the mostly single tracked Sunset Route. I do agree with MP57313 about property tax assesment. CSX pays one third of all their property taxes to New York State.The only way they were able get a brake was to hold up state sponsered improvments to the Empire Service. If not they hold have to pay a bundle on the (Selkirk to Noth Jersey)River line double tracking project.
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