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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by SP9033</i> <br /><br />I'm all for sharing: Nevada's only non Union Pacific railroad local; <br /> <br />[img]http://ll-photo3.home.att.net/BNSF2584_06-02-05_2.jpg[/img] <br /> <br />There just isn't lots of capitalistic competition on the central corridor here in Nevada. The merger should have let the Washington Group or Kansas City Southern take over this route! iT DIDN'T! <br /> <br />Jim <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />No truer words can be spoken, yet if the feds had allowed someone other than BNSF's token enabling of it's access, it would have defeated the whole purpose of the Staggers Act in the process. Remember, in railthinking, head to head rail competition is BAD for the industry's health, thus should only be allowed in the biggest of markets. <br /> <br />You're right though, KCS or MRL should have been given rights to the West Coast as a condition of both the BN+SF and the UP+SP mergers. This would have created a nice triopoly, a condition which is essentially the minimum for a truly competitive market.
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