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The specifics of livestock-by-rail have been very well covered. As a general comment, railroads over the past fifty years have sought to cut costs by concentrating on bulk commodities, largely ceding time-sensitive traffic and that which requires special handling to trucking. The exceptions are volume movements for very large shippers such as motor vehicle mfrs and UPS. Factors which could potentially shift significant quantities of freight back to the rails are largely external to the industry, and include large and permanent increases in fuel prices, highway capacity constraints and driver shortage; that last one is already having some effect.
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