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Some interesting points concerning mergers; <br />If you fly from Atlanta to Denver on Delta Air lines , you go all the way on Delta , no interchange with another air carrier. If a shipper gives Roadway or Yellow 4 pallets of freight in Penn. to go to Texas, they will deliver all the way with no interchange. If a shipper gives J B Hunt or Schneider a truckload in North Carolina for Utah they will go all the way without interchange. The same goes for UPS, Fedex, etc. If a shipper gives a container to Maersk SeaLand in China for Chicago there is no interchange to another carrier. Same for P&O from Europe to Texas. Railroads are the only transport system where the major portion of the freight is interchanged between separate companies. That is why the mergers will come. The shipper customers want them. <br />I did not agree with the UP-SP merger and the breakup of Conrail. If these events had not occured, then we would have had three railroads in the east and three in the west and then three transcon railroads instead of just two. That would have been a better situation for competition. BNSF and Conrail together would have been very interesting.
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