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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by nanaimo73 Up here in British Columbia a few years ago CP Rail needed to replace an old bridge at the town of Sicamous. This was a swing bridge used by boaters, some of them living in town. As soon as CP built the new bridge, the town doubled the taxes they had been putting on the bridge. I would hope towns along the Sunset do not use a newly laid second track through their town as a reason to increase taxes. They should be happy that the trains are probably spending less time blocking their streets. In Indiana there was a major project to remove a Norfolk Southern line through Lafayette (May 2000 Trains).In this case the taxpayer paid for the work and got the benefits. I think there must be places were railroads could increase capacity with their own money that would make sense if they were non-taxable, and the public would still get other benefits. [/quote] Yeah that line through Lafayette was a menace,had the train going right down the middle of a city street... Pretty wild when you think about how that once was seen as normal. There was a short segment like that here on the old old NYC, but that line was next to dead already by the time I was born. I still shake my head just looking at the remnants., wondering how folks could tolerate it.
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