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> they end up shipping the vast majority of coal You may be thinking of the entity that used to be known as Conrail. Amtrak is passenger only.

• azeotropic 8y ago
  >could at least tax GP may also be thinking of the U.S. House of Representatives. Amtrak has no power to levy taxes.
  • munk-a 8y ago
    Amtrak (or carriers, in this case I believe Conrail may be what I meant) can charge money for their services. When I mentioned taxing the goods I didn't mean sending in the IRS and instead I was referring to levying an additional fee for the costs induced by the usage of their service. The word tax has multiple meanings, and my usage above was indeed correctly utilizing one of those meanings.
    • Aloha 8y ago
      Conrail doesn't really exist anymore as a Class 1 carrier.
    • zaroth 8y ago
      Discriminatory pricing on government subsidized rail lines based on pet policy objectives seems like a really bad idea. I would expect there is some sort of legislation on this, we could call it rail neutrality or something.