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For the most part, the Class I's would oppose any such concept, for no other reason than the fact that it violates the Railroad Prime Directive - Do what ever it takes to minimize intramodal competition. The Class I's would rather be in the position of maximizing pricing power, even if it means turning away future (read: logical) business. New capacity means a dilution of their current pricing power, the exception of course being federal aid for internal capacity expansion that helps to maintain the current "natural" monopoly character of NA railroads. Any such concept therefore would have to occur independently of the current Class I oligarchy. All in favor of a multimodal Interstate Transportation System, step right this way......
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