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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by goboard</i> <br /><br />@ futuremodal: <br /> <br />You probably won't see direct subsidies for new lines, that's true. <br /> <br />What you could see is the govt paying the freights to run passenger service over existing freight lines, in compensation for infrastructure upgrades. <br /> <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />It's amazing that so many people who ostensibly have divergent opinions on rail transportation can also have alot of common ground. Yes, it is also my opinion that during the creation of Amtrak back in 1970, the nation would have been better off if the feds had just directly subisidized of offered certain tax incentives to the freight railroads to continue to run their own passenger trains, rather than pawning them off on a federal agency. If nothing else, the level of service would have been improved, and the incentives to innovate would have still been in place.
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