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There will never be a super railraod in the US. The Laws are specifically set up to deter such a thing, infact there's talk that Congress will soon be making UP split off some of it's holdings. The best you'll rpobably see in the US will be around 5 or 6 big railroads, with another 10-14 medium lines and hundreds of shortlines. and as others have said the names will cycle, UP is one of the big one, but in 5 or 10 years it may be a medium again and another Railroad will take it's place. The US governement did have many Railroads it owned, they started companies, ran them till they were decently profitable, then sold them (at cost) to private investors. There is one exception to this, the Alaskan Railroad, which the US Government Sold to the State of Alaska, and is one of the most profitable Governement run railroads in the world. So the only Hand the US Government would have in running a Freight Railroad would be to get it ready for private Takeover to foster more competition. As for passeneger service, Congress is really taking a hard look at how Amtrak is designed and they may make major changes to it to make sure there's some sort of federal mass transist available in the event that Airliners are grounded again. Jay
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