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Actually, not so. In America, (and frankly, in anywhere else,) the owner is king. If he want's to ignore the customer's will, and run his business into the ground, he can. Happens all the time. <br /> <br />Did the shippers have much say in BN+SF, or UP+SP? No. Almost none. Those mergers may or may not be wise, but it didn't matter, the owners, i.e. the shareholders, wanted them. <br /> <br />In a contest of wills, the shareholders always win. It maye stink, but, baring fraud by executive staff, (i.e. Enron,) that's the way it is. <br /> <br />If railroads became more profitable, the money would either go into infratructure or into dividends. With BNSF, they stopped the former and switched to the latter, before their present ho-hum performance came about. (Rob K. made the change after BNSF+CN went up in smoke.)
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