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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by O.S.</i> <br /><br />To emphasize Mr. Husman's point, and to borrow from Mr. Oltmann, the breweries have access to the same capital markets as everyone else. If high-speed service was really that valuable to them or to Mr. Clark's employers, they could buy their own airplanes, or built their own railroad. Since they aren't, I can only conclude that what they really want is Saks 5th Avenue service at Bob's Bargain Barn prices. I'm not feeling sorry for them. <br /> <br />OS <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />OS, <br /> <br />You, like so many other conventional railroaders, live in a fantasy world, in that you think your industry is just like any other industry, thus subject to the same laws of capital. <br /> <br />Here's a quiz for you: What other industries besides railroads have been given land grants in the history of the U.S.? <br /> <br />To state flippantly that shippers shoud just build their own railroad denies the reality of how todays railroads came about in the first place. Today's railroads did not come about due to the demands of the free market, they came about due to the inducements of the federal government. If indeed you would like to see shippers enter the railroad business themselves, they're going to need either inducement to build their own lines, or equal access to existing lines.
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