Also, the trains would charge monopoly prices if no long-haul trucks. You can read about that in any US history book. And if I'm shipping something in the form

Also, the trains would charge monopoly prices if no long-haul trucks. You can read about that in any US history book. And if I'm shipping something in the form-factor of a parade float, I'd want to load it once on a truck, not on a truck and then a train.