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[quote user="Limitedclear"][quote user="futuremodal"] There are certain lines in the US which would make good candidates for the toll railroad concept.  The required conditions would be: 1.  The line currently has extra capacity available. 2.  The line connects to multiple Class I's at both ends, and/or a logical waterway transload port at one or both ends, and/or a major freight terminal. 3.  The line has desirable operating profiles. 4.  The current owner would derive more income from the line by renting it out to maximum capacity rather than keeping it all to themselves at subcapacity, or abandoning the line for scrap. Nominees? [/quote] There are no "Toll Railroads". There will be no "Toll Railroads". The term "Toll Railroads" is a complete misnomer. Give it up FM. The type of situation you suggest will not happen. Why? Because the railroads already have their own long lasting and workable arrangement for charging rates and routing traffic. A railroad that opened a line to traffic to all comers that had even some of the characteristics you find desirable would immediately short haul itself to the detriment of its shareholders. One can only imagine the floodgates of litigation that would open. Railroads have mechanisms for handling situations in which they have extra capacity already through trackage rights or haulage rights agreements or even joint ventures such as the Meridian Speedway. These measures and other rate work are a much more efficient means of asset utilization than what you suggest and they already exist in a manner approved and acceptable to the industry and the regulators. There is no justification for your half baked reinvention of the wheel (as usual). LC [/quote] So how is your pretend shortline doing? [(-D][(-D][(-D] Always enjoy the rants of the plankeyed! For what it's worth, your shortline would do better as a toll railroad hosting multiple Class I overhead traffic, rather than trying to make ends meet with it's pitiful online business.  Overhead traffic provides better net, MRL has learned this.
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