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Posted by Pathfinder on Saturday, August 5, 2006 6:04 PM
 Limitedclear wrote:

There is no such thing.

LC



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Posted by Limitedclear on Saturday, August 5, 2006 5:57 PM

There is no such thing.

LC

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"toll" railroads
Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, August 5, 2006 5:40 PM

At a time when the UP and SP experienced a lull or temporary breakdown in their merger talks, some in the RR business press were speculating that SP might simply become a "toll railroad".  Since I have never heard of such a thing before, how exactly would that operate, and have there been other toll railroads in the past?  If it were a viable option, why, for example, could any of the lines making up Conrail (NYC, PRR, etc.) not have used the same option rather than submit to the govt. merger?

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