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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by Limitedclear</i> <br /> <br />FM- <br /> <br />You surely must be joking... <br /> <br />Subsidizing a Class 1 railroad to compete with another Class 1 doesn't constitute a subsidy because you call it "mitigation". GET REAL... <br /> <br />A subsidy is a subsidy and a pretty label won't change that a bit. How can trying to rebuild the MILW be "righting a wrong"??? Hogwash. Subsidizing a railroad that didn't exist then to move into Montana to compete with an existing line. That is a taking of property without due process of law. <br /> <br />LC <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />LC, <br /> <br />First of all, returning rail competition to the Northern Tier doesn't require any government money, just government action. The point is, it took a government action to eliminate rail competition up this way, and it will take government action to ameliorate the situation. If the BNSF apologists insist on calling any such amelioration a subsidy, then why not take that logic to the next level and call the government mandated retrenchment of Milwaukee a subsidy for BN? <br /> <br />Of course, the bigger question is why so many railfans are opposed to inducing rail-based competition? Do you insist that the only way railroads can lower their operating ratio's and endear themselves to Wall Street is by empowering railroads with monopolistic pricing power? <br /> <br />What is extremely amusing is LC's insistence that any action that results in de facto competition for BNSF is taking of private property. A whole lot of farmers in Montana have had their property taken from them due to BNSF's monopolistic pricing practices at the blessing of the regulators. I guess it only counts as private property if it has "Property of BNSF" signs on it.
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