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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">I doubt that Mr. Ward’s reluctance has anything to do with the sharpness of curves or the speed of the trains.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I think what he is signaling, but unwilling to say is the railroad industry’s wariness of entering into a private/public partnership with the federal government.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>HSR boosters have indicated that freight railroads already go to all the places that HSR wants to go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>So there is a presumption that the freight railroads should play nice and share their corridors for the greater public good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amtrak was the castor oil that the private railroads had to swallow in order to get out from under their money pit passenger trains.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The HSR partnership would be like Amtrak on steroids. </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">We like to talk about how NIMBYS are thwarting HSR.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>It won’t be long before we see that the biggest NIMBYS against HSR will be the freight railroads.</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">   </span></span></p>
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