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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by BaltACD If Tax money is to be used to enhance railroad capacity, the area in which it needs to be expended is in the major metropolitan areas, which for the most part are severe oprational bottlenecks as the success of the railroads caused the towns to grow and thus encircle and limit where the railroads could put thier alignments and facilities. The alignments and facilities that were laid out in the 19th Century for the construction capabilities of that era have created severe operational handicaps that can only be solved with governmental assistance, governmental assistance that would benefit both the railroads and the communities they serve. Relatively speaking the railroads have the financial wherewithall to expand capacity on their inter-city routes to the levels necessary for traffic that exists. Whether rail leadership has the vision and foresight to build line capacity for the future is another question entirely. However, once line of road capacity is enhanced the problem of Terminal Capacity in Metropolitan areas still exists and thus becomes the overall limiting factor on total rail capactiy. [/quote] Hey, *that* is something I feel a lot more comfortable with.. If you are talking about taxpayers paying to move roads out of alignmentways so railroads can modernize their plant, that makes SOME sense, of course justified on a case by case basis. But yeah, that doesn't bother me as much as what I think Mark has been suggesting... When he writes about it ,..it looks for all the world like he's advocating a dole to add track capacity, which seems like too much of a good thing, at least to me.
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