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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Murphy Siding [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Limitedclear FM - You can't make a railroad a monopoly by saying so. The railroad market share is effectively policed by trucks and other railroad competition unlike the electric or gas utility which has no effective competition. Sioux City is also served by BNSF and Baard is free to nergotiate with them. Of course, given their track record with the UP the result is likely to be the same... LC [/quote] Sioux City is also served by CN. If neither of the three want to *donate* $2-3 million in track infrastructure, would it still be fair to blame the railroad(s) for the deal falling apart? [/quote] You have to remember, just because Sioux City might have a second or third railroad within the city limits does not mean that there is the opportunity for effective intramodal rail compeition at that particular piece of property. It sounds as if UP is the only railroad within a stone's throw of the property, wherein the spur build out can be facilitated. What would it take for BNSF or CN to get to that piece of property? Bulling a line down a residential street? Cutting through a local elementary school? Nah, that wouldn't cause any local commotion, would it? Unless someone can verify to the contrary, that fact remains that this site is captive to UP, ergo UP is a natural monopoly for this piece of property.
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