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Putting the railroads under government control is the quickest way to destroy our rail system. Look at what happened under government economic regulation. Only deregulation in the form of the Staggers Act in 1980 brought the railroads back from the brink and even then look at the huge railroad bankruptcies. Can the government even seem to handle passenger rail. Amtrak is a mess due to government meddling in its day to day operations. And you ask what is wrong with government control?!? Surely you jest!! LC [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Junctionfan How could making the mainlines govermentally owned and leased, bankrupt the railroads. I'm not proposing that anybody with a locomotive can run. What I was proposing is that for example a couple of main arteries double or triple tracked, maintained and dispatched by a governmental agency, that can be use by all the class 1 railroads, passengers traffic, commuter traffic and some shortlines to get from one shortline to another. I can think of one place in Canada that would benefit from this. The Canada Southern route that went between Buffalo/Fort Erie to WIndsor/Detroit. This route would solve conjestion problems in Fostoria and would eliminate time for time sensitive NS and CSX intermodals running East to West to East. There would need to be work done on this route but it would be very great for CSX, NS, CN, CP, VIA, Rail America, Amtrak as well as UP and BNSF that wait for the eastbound NS and CSX intermodals. CP could run their Expressway tofc ferry between Buffalo and Detroit. CSX and NS could run their autoparts trains quicker, CN could run a few Niagara to Sarnia trains down that route. Also, Amtrak could run what they use to run an express train that ran between Detroit and Buffalo Depew. Via could start service between Niagara Falls Canada to Windsor. Some of the shortlines could get to their other locations without having to depend on CN. [/quote]
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