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<p>[quote user="Mr. LMD"]</p> <p> <blockquote> <div>if they do restart this passenger service, they would have to pay quite a good amount of money to upgrade or construct stations (if need to) and redo their train schedule to fit a passenger service inbetween freight runs.</div> </blockquote> </p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p>[/quote]</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;">Yes, but the far bigger problem is that there is no market for train service that would be sufficient to cover the cost and produce a profit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is why the class ones all wanted out of the passenger business in the first place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lacking any clarification; for the Bloomberg article to say that the class ones want back into the passenger business is preposterous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That would be the biggest railroad news since 1850.</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span> </span></span></p>
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