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It is not logical to compare private property ownership of a home or brick and mortar business with the private property ownership of transportation infrastructure. It is precisely the proprietary owner-operator setup of the nation's rail network that is causing problems for U.S. shippers relative to their foreign counterparts. All transportation corridors in the U.S. sans the rail network are publicly owned open access corridors. Because the proprietary rail ownership causes higher rates and less incentive for innovation than would otherwise occur under an open access system, it is forcing more companies to either shift to trucks, move overseas, or shut down all together. Added to that is the reality that many proposals for new production and manufacturing facilities in the U.S. stay mothballed because these investors don't want to put up with the hassles of monopolistic pricing practices. What logical industrial investor would want to deal with the rail oligarchy today? <br /> <br />Rather than creating more problems than it sovles, the body of evidence regarding the state of U.S. manufacturing and production, and the needlessly higher shipping costs for U.S. firms relative to overseas firms, it is axiomatic that some kind of open access rail system in the U.S. would solve a whole slew of problems. You need to look at these things from the perspective of what's good for the nation as a whole (and by inclusion the future of the rail industry), not just what's ostensibly good for the current rail oligarchy. As has been stated before, the pool of captive rail shippers can only shrink over time because only a fool would construct a new industrial plant with access to only one Class I, and since the merger option has been pretty well maxed, what other options does the rail industry have for improving ROI's?
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