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<p>[quote user="Murphy Siding"] Ya know.....I just can't believe that a multi-billion dollar railroad corporation doesn't take unsolicited advice from railfans. What were they thinking?<span class="smiley">[:-,]</span>[/quote]</p><p>First, you have to know what you're talking about. And you obviously don't.</p><p>BCRail wasn't a multi-billion dollar corporation, it was a Provincially ran publicly owned railroad.</p><p>Secondly, my conversations with them were not those of a "railfan" offering advice, but conversations between an independent transportation researcher and a government body soliciting public comment (albeit from it's citizens, not from unnaffected Americans, thus the "unsolicited" characterization). I stated my background prior to my recommendations, and referenced the research behind the open access concept. The basic premise was that the BC government would ostensibly want what's best for the BCRail shippers over the long term, and allowing one Class I to take over the line would lead to service problems getting worse, not better, given the different operating characteristics of the line in question, and could ultimately lead to the loss of the BCRail line altogether. </p><p>The fact that they were willing to engage me in such conversations was encouraging at the time, but even the reps I spoke with seemed consigned to the ulterior wishes of the Provincial government.</p><p>I still think this CN takeover will lead to the eventual abandonment of the southern portion of the line.</p><p> </p>
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