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greyhounds - you're splitting hairs. Bitzan himself does not differentiate between what he calls "way and structure" costs and total capital costs, because his theory says it isn't kosher to do so, and admittedly I am not totally clear as to why he frames it that way. But whether the claim is that (a) track maintenance and associated costs would go up, (b) rolling stock and associated costs would go up, or (c) both a and b, there is no evidence of that claim. For one to claim that rolling stock costs would go up, you would have to assume that rolling stock would be functioning at underutilization under OA, but in fact we already know that current rolling stock is underutilized in the current closed access system due to slow transit speeds, yard dwell, and system congestion from long slow consists. If OA resulted in a return to the Milwaukee/D&RGW model of more expedient dispatching, then car utilization would improve, and costs relative to tonnage moved would go down.
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