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It was a mistake to hand America's rail system off to private companies and then de-regulate them
And it continues to be a mistake everyday we ignore the problem.
It was always private companies. Givt gave tgem lots of land and money, looked the other way at incidents like this, and let them merge like rabbits in the 80s-90s.
And took passenger off their backs in the 70s, forming Amtrak.
We need to establish National Trackage Rights for true competition and improved safety.
Selling off Conrail is still an inexplicably stupid decision to me, even looking at it from the full neoliberal brainrot angle.
I worked for them at the end. We called it Clownrail. Former CEO has a Harley dealership.
Managers got wads of cash, union people got fired by NS if they were union officials.
These railroads merged last year, who did absolutely nothing to deter it?
He also busted a strike when his handlers told him to shut it down.
Imagine
And then got virtually all of their demands pushed through?
Don't we still give them money? They won't do maintenance on the track unless we do is my understanding.