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The future of railroading is good, providing that there is a clear vision of what the industry wants to become. Having said this it is important to look at a few facts 1. Railroads cannot be the monopoly in transportation that they were in the late 19th and early 20th century's, federal power and popular sentimenet will scotch that,2. Airlines despite their sexiness are finding just like the railroads that the passenger business does not earn all that much when compared to air freight earns (James Hill could have told em that), and 3. Highways are ( despite the propaganda of the legalized trusts known as the 50 states and Uncle Sugar) money pits that devour taxpayer money faster than a yard of asphalt can be put down on a Carolina Summer morning. With this said, maybe it is time for real thinking about what is really needed in transportation that would involve places of economic support for new industry, fast ground trransport that is not in the ten wheeler shooting gallery and a way to get around that doesn't require increasingly expensive imported oil and gasoline. That would be a far sight better that keeping with what has been just popular from the ashpalt and concrete paving lobby and making them rich at the expense of all of us. [2c]
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