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[quote user="greyhounds"][quote user="futuremodal"] <P>Then I see that greyhounds is back to his redundant obsession with stagnant aggregation, as if every rail terminal in the US only has enough business for one rail crew per day. Memo to Ken: There is more than enough business at most rail terminals across the USA to support more than one rail service provider. So now's the time to pull your head out of whatever it is you have it stuck in.</P> <P>[/quote]</P> <P>I don't know what you're defining as a terminal. What are you defining as a terminal? If you define it large enough then you're obviously right. </P> <P>The problem is not with the total amount of business, but with business that can be aggregated into a train moving to a specific destination. There's a lot of business moving from Louisville, but only a fraction of it can get aggregated into any one train. The cigarettes for New York aren't going to ride with the cigarettes for Dallas.</P> <P>It's this destination specific aggregation of individual, indentifiable units (freightcars) that you don't seem to understand. Maybe because it isn't present in the distribution of electricity. </P> <P>Again, it's not the total amount of business in the terminal (whatever you're calling a 'terminal'), but the amount that can be aggregated into any one train. If you split that aggrergation up between more rail carriers you'll make that aggregation more difficult and drive up the cost of rail transportation.</P> <P>That's why Open Access is a realy bad concept.</P> <P>Can you reference any research showing OA will be benificial?</P> <P>[/quote]</P> <P>Now you're just stuck on misplaced contextualization. You keep coming back with the "one train load being split between two or more carriers" scenario, while completely ignoring the current multiple trainset scenarios. I have provided several OA interpretations that would mitigate the single train per day scenario (franchising, business shift back to rail), and such trainset limitations are the exception rather than the rule as they pertain to total rail tonnage.</P> <P>It's almost as if you guys need to keep shoving that out of context example into our faces with such ad nauseum repetition in order to frame it as the reality, courtesy of Goebbels.</P>
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