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Save it for what? If it wasn't economically sustainable, who would pay for it? You? Me? <br /> <br />Someone would have to. <br /> <br />There were some railroads that should have never been built. The Lehigh Valley west of the coal country of Pennsylvania. The Rock Island west of the Quad Cities (and a case could have been made that it shouldn't have been built that far). The Milwaukee Road west of the Twin Cities. I'm sure you can think of others. <br /> <br />Some tend to romanticize the old "Fallen Flags" because they had railfan appeal; some lament the jobs that were lost; some lament the towns that no longer had service. But if the jobs had produced a service that enough people wanted to buy, if the towns generated enough business to warrant the railroad's continuation - they'd still be there. <br /> <br />Tell me you liked the visual effects - from the railfan standpoint - of the old west end of the Milwaukee. But don't tell me that its fate should have been different from what happened to it. <br /> <br />The Government saved Conrail because it needed saving; it was vital to the part of the country it served. The west end of the Milwaukee wasn't. And Conrail wound up paying for itself. The Milwaukee would never have done that. <br /> <br />Old Timer
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