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[quote user="Datafever"][quote user="futuremodal"] <P>The point is, the railroad didn't lose the business to trucks, it rather used available trucks to force consolidation of the terminal operations, and "massage" a loss of online business on the branch to eventually *show* the ICC that the line had no more customers.</P> <P>Ergo, trucks were not the competition.</P> <P>[/quote]<BR><BR>You sure have a way of twisting words to fit things into your own scenario.<BR>[/quote]</P> <P>Oh, I'm twisting words?</P> <P>Let's look at some basic facts. Feel free to disagree with any if you so choose:</P> <P>1. Railroads are better at the long haul. Agree or disagree?</P> <P>2. Trucks are better at the short haul. Agree or disagree?</P> <P>3. Amending #'s 1 and 2 above, railroad <STRONG>unit trains</STRONG> are better at the short haul than trucks. Agree or disagree?</P> <P>4. Specific to your anecdotal example, the likelyhood that the truck hauls were long hauls is zero percent. Agree or disagree?</P> <P>5. The likelyhood is that boxcar grain shipments were anything but prefered by mainline managers and grain terminal handlers. Agree or disagree?</P> <P>6. By your own admission, it is likely that the railroad in question kept the longhaul, therefore trucks did not take this business from the railroad. Agree or disagree?</P>
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