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Personally I don't see how government ownership of the track is any different than government (or public) ownership of roads and airports. I do agree that ownership of the operating companies should be left in private hands. This would provide more competition because there would be greater ease of entry into the business since upstarts would not have to build their own infrastructure. This would put rail, road and air on more equal funding footings. It would lead to a more rational network with more double track and less duplicate single track between major centres. Who knows, Amtrak or its successor might actually run on time depending who was doing the dispatching for the system. Of course the railroads wouldn't like this but on the other hand they are slow to dig into their own pockets to do any substantial expansion of the system. On the other hand they are probably all willing to accept money from the public ( government) domain for improvements as long as there are no strings attached.
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