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Believe or not I believe that the rail-banking and rails to trails movement is part of a conspiracy to ensure a monopoly by one or two of the Class one railroads to make sure that upstart wont get a hold of enough track to start a class one. Case in point---CSX Bought up the Western Maryland which though they never realy needed it to downgrade and tear up between Cumberland and Pittsburgh. Not its being converted into a rail trail. The D&H/Canadian Pacific just tore up there “Albany Main” to “Rail Bank” it despite offers to Run a steam train on it. If they let a steam train run it to Voorheesville industrial park the customers would have 3 railroads to choose from instead of 2 (CSX & CP) Much of the Erie Lackawanna is now being converted into bike trails. What we are doing is not really “Rail Banking” what we are doing is tearing up viable rail that could be mothballed or have the STB do a forced sale to a regional railroad to ensure competition. To relay new track can run from 500,000 to 5,000,000 a mile. By tearing up the track the railroads know that it is irreplaceable and shut out any upstarts. Both CSX and NS have put holds on selling branches to short lines unless they know for certain that the sale wont turn around and bite them in the butt by having a new regional that will be in competition instead of a non union slave railroad
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