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Posted by Jackson Park B Train on Wed May 20 00:25:47 2015, in response to Re: NYC Rail networks—bursting at seams?, posted by SelkirkTMO on Tue May 19 23:36:21 2015. Why I honor The Octopus as a great muck raking novel. The sad history is that because the robber barons were such total crooks we got the ICC which soon got too arthritic to allow orderly competition. By the time we were kids the RRs were such hellholes of rigidity that brillint business people went elsewhere. Meanwhile courtesy of Ike trucklers were eating their lunch. By the time of Staggers (which went way too far the other way), we were saddled with a number of badly conceived mergers and the healthy less stupid RRS walking away from the basket cases. Think about the Rock Island fiasco. By the late 90s we have two large systems west, two east, and two Canadians midwest including undoing the PC mistake but massively in NS favor. Forty years ago the National Farmers Organization was trying to help farmers survive -- they fielded their own grain hoppers, which now the big guys don't want to use. |
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